Roundtable “Improving City Cybersecurity – Accelerating the Sharing of Sensitive Personal Knowledge “- April 21 at 4PM CET

Hello everyone, my name is Oliver Schwabe and I am the founder and principal orchestrator of the Open European Network for Enterprise Innovation. We are a trustworthy, deeply connected group of diverse world-class game changers, at all career stages, from multiple disciplines with a passion for innovation and addressing industrial and societal challenges. We collaborate in an open, adaptive and tribal network based on archetypal patterns of innovation success. Together we continuously create proposal from research to implementation, advise friends in their innovation efforts and research how to accelerate innovations from ideation to market success across all adopter groups. For ActFaster! we have created a research-based consortium consisting of Major Cities Europe, the Smart Cities Institute (Israel), the Innovation Value Institute at Maynooth University (Ireland), VTT Technical Research Centre (Finland), Entovation International (USA) and the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center at Tel Aviv Univ (Israel).

In ActFaster! we are creating a proposal under the Horizon Europe program to help protect cities and municipalities each other by sharing information on cyberattacks experience by a member with all other members in a secure, anonymous, and rapid manner based on HUMAN trust and advanced collaboration technologies. We are reaching out to you to ask whether you would like to apply to join our proposal and share your success stories to make it a really good one! While we are focused on the EU we will be reaching out to Cities worldwide as well to learn from what they are doing.

ActFaster! is based on a simple story that occurs daily and that will be legalized, amplified and scaled. Let us take a look at the story. The story starts with YOU. One of your staff members is John and he works in the Security Operations Centre of your city. Your City is unfortunately hit by a cyberattack and John informs you. After receiving the message and getting all necessary actions launched, you call Paul and tell him about what is happening. Paul is the CISO at another city and your friend. You call him to warn him of what is happening in your city, are worried that he mght also be attacked and suggest he prepare his defenses. Paul is really grateful for your warning and launches all necessary activities. Once Paul is done, he calls his friend Amy who is CISO at another city and warns her. Paul and Amy are obviously also calling other friends. Mike is also a CISO but unfortunately not a friend of yours, Paul or Amy or their friends. If Mike is not warned his City will probably not be prepared for the attack and hence suffer the consequences. Can we help Mike? ActFaster! helps Mike and us in various ways.

ActFaster! helps Mike by allowing him to become a friend with the others via technology and via a research based Social Diffusion Model which we have developed and that ensures he can be trusted by the others AND that he can trust them. This model is activated on a blockchain and AI enabled secure and anonymous messaging platform. Mike registers to become a member, is manually validated and assimilated into the trustful social system that Actfaster! supports. ActFaster! helps us by legalizing, amplifying and accelerating the diffusion of sensitive knowledge across ecosystems of cities. Actfaster! also helps us trust the advice we receive enough to actually launch into relevant treatments. A good analogy might be the Corona apps we have all come to know. Actfaster! allows for “infected” organizations to notify friends securely, anonymously, and rapidly – it will of course be up to us to listen and make our decisions.  ActFaster! also ensures that any notifications are verified by cybersecurity experts before others are notified. Actfaster! is about creating high quality, trustworthy information that allows actionable interventions.

In a first step we are running semi-structured interviews with city representatives. The results will flow into the proposal. We are also running a pilot community where you can join for a small fee and experience the benefits of joining the proposal and its implementation. Note that in the proposal itself you will not need to contribute funding and will not receive funding. Please do review this invitation and reach out to me at oliver.schwabe@innovation-web.eu for scheduling an interview – we expect the interview to need about 90 minutes of your time and are looking to run a small number of very high-quality sessions in complete confidence of course.

 P.S. If you are interested in learning more please visit us at www.innovation-web.eu, our LinkedIn Group at https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8779542/, our blog at https://www.innovation-web.eu/entov-hvm-blog, our Researchgate project page at https://www.researchgate.net/project/Open-European-Network-for-Enterprise-Innovation-in-High-Value-Manufacturing-ENTOV-HVM, our Sourceforge page at https://sourceforge.net/projects/entov-hvm/  and our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2014779865300180/. You can also follow us via Twitter: @owschwabe (#innovationweb) and the LinkedIn Group page https://www.linkedin.com/company/entov.