Effective decision making, early warning systems and cyber security management requires tools and techniques that enable organisations to efficiently process the flow of information from both internal and external sources, through improved information processing, analysis and, where necessary, exchange; as well as to manage the implementation of cyber security solutions.

The tools and techniques should leverage the state-of-the-art in areas such as SIEM, data analytics (including Big Data) and visualisation, threat intelligence, malware analysis and cyber security information exchange.

Taking into account the large variety of IT systems and architectures in use today, the projects should strive to promote interoperability through the use of globally accepted open standards and wider uptake of any proposed solutions.

Several pilots projects will be supported, for different application areas.

The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of between €2m and €5m EUR would allow this topic to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.

Proposals have to address the specific needs of the end-user, private or public organisations.

With the goal of providing assistance to the private sector (including SMEs), proposals may also address the needs of those entities whose mission it is to assist others such as CSIRTs, national or sector-specific Cyber Security Centres or similar organisations.

Proposals are encouraged to include public security end-users and/or private end users.

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