The Region is participating in the second phase of a European project to strengthen the security of strategic digital infrastructures
The Region is participating in the second phase of a European project to strengthen the security of strategic digital infrastructures
The Region of Murcia continues to move forward in its participation in the ‘Resilmesh’ project, a European initiative aimed at strengthening the security of the European Union’s strategic digital infrastructures, which has just entered its second phase.
In this second phase, which is more complex, highly realistic operational scenarios will be recreated in which different types of cyberattacks are simulated in order to test and evaluate coordinated responses among all participating countries.
The regional government is taking part in this project through the Regional Ministry of Economy, Finance, European Funds and Digital Transformation, which is collaborating with organizations from eight other European countries: Ireland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Finland, France, Italy, Greece, and Portugal.
All of these participants are specifically working to advance the development of new algorithms and IT tools based on Artificial Intelligence, with the specific aim of detecting and predicting attacks through early warning systems.
In the Region of Murcia, this cybersecurity tool will be applied experimentally in three facilities considered critical: the regional administration and two companies—one in renewable energy and another in robotics.
The Director General for Digital Transformation, Javier Martínez, recalled that cybersecurity “is one of the major challenges of the digital transformation process, both for public administrations and for companies and individual users, and for this reason the regional government has increased its investment in digital security this year to 62 million euros.”
Martínez also emphasized the importance of coordination among different European countries in this field and highlighted the Region of Murcia’s presence in this innovative project. “The Community’s participation in this initiative demonstrates the regional government’s commitment to digitalization and confirms the significant standing and recognition that the Region of Murcia enjoys at the European level,” he noted.
An investment of seven million euros
Most of the development and coordination work for this cybersecurity tool is carried out remotely, although the project includes quarterly meetings to strengthen coordination, cohesion, and knowledge transfer.
Since the start of the project, the Region of Murcia has been present at all of these meetings, which have taken place in Coimbra (Portugal), Graz (Austria), Milan (Italy), and most recently in Jyväskylä (Finland).
In this regard, the Director General for Digital Transformation pointed out that these meetings allow the Community’s technical teams “to work in a coordinated and continuous manner with leading institutions from other countries, fostering knowledge transfer, capacity building, and regional positioning in the field of cybersecurity and digital innovation.”
The project has also made it possible to hire two newly graduated computer engineers from the University of Murcia, “which highlights the regional government’s commitment to qualified youth employment and to regional technological talent,” Martínez stated.
The ‘Resilmesh’ initiative, part of the Horizon Europe program, has a budget of seven million euros and a planned duration of 36 months.