IMI

The IRIS platform for the European project Artificial Intelligence Threat Reporting and Incident Response System (IRIS) was tested in three European cities: Barcelona, Helsinki and Tallinn.  The results were presented on 5 and 6 March before the Consortium, which was made up of 18 partners and headed by Portugal’s INOV. Various debates and interactive presentations took place over the two days, looking at the three cases where the project was trialled.

The different test scenarios, simulate real city services, detect cyberattacks and use artificial intelligence (AI) to classify them. This information is passed to the IRIS platform and to response centres for ICT emergencies (CERT) to assess, respond to and share information on threats and vulnerabilities in ICT systems. The platform enables orders to be relayed to security operations to mitigate threats detected by a third party.

In the case of the test in Barcelona, based on a service to detect collisions between personal mobility vehicles and pedestrians at the TRAM stop, the system verifies that the alarm information is correct and has not been generated by a third party or eliminated.

The attacks from hackers simulated incidents or generated denials of service.  This trial showed that the infrastructure of IoT systems could interact correctly in an environment such as the IRIS platform.

The pilot project shows that the coexistence of these technologies can offer a safer environment where trams and vulnerable pedestrians can safely share space and that they also reduce security issues and accidents resulting from cyberattacks originated by humans.

The IMI was tasked with constructing, operating and maintaining the testing ground where one of the three tests was conducted.