Seven companies from Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and France have been selected to deliver EU's 4SECURail programme, funded through Horizon 2020.

Started in December 2019 and officially launched in January 2020, 4SECURail is coordinated by the engineering consulting firm Ardanuy Ingeniería, S.A., in collaboration with Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), FIT Consulting, Hit Rail, SIRTI, Tree Technology and International Union of Railways (UIC).

Hit Rail B.V., specializing in IT solutions, will work alongside partners UIC and Tree Technology, an R&D company, to deliver the co-design and testing of a model and collaboration platform for a European Railway Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT). The system is designed to coordinate the cyber security response actions of the separate railway security teams.

CSIRT will extend that collaboration and will be demonstrated and tested in 2020/2021 to support future consideration of the feasibility of deployment by the Shift2Rail joint undertaking and its work in X2RAIL3 supporting the EU Rail ISAC and Rail Community.

CNR will join forces with Ardanuy, FIT and SIRTI to provide a demonstrator for the evaluation, in terms of cost, benefits and required learning curve, of the impact of the use of formal methods for the rigorous specification of the components of a railway signaling infrastructure.

Shift2Rail is a European rail initiative supporting Research and Innovation (R&I) aimed at integrating new and advanced technologies through its Horizon 2020 funding, with the goal of completing the Single European Railway Area (SERA).

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