Objective

To meet the challenges of globalization in the light of increasingly complex decentralized production and service chains, companies are increasingly relying on digital methods such as the virtual exchange and usage of shared data. The convergence of IT and OT systems required for this, which is based on the intertwining of ICT infrastructure, also entails the emergence of new digital security challenges in addition to the propagated potential of Industry 4.0, which is progressing just as dynamically as the evolution of digital ecosystems.

The IDUNN project aims to show companies, which find themselves caught in a dichotomy between the need to advance digitally on the one hand and the accompanying digital risks on the other, a way to continue to assert themselves on the market by developing a security shield in the form of tools, methods, microservices and initial standards that are compatible with any ICT infrastructure. 

By developing and validating an innovative cognitive recognition system for the cyber-secure operation of digital infrastructure, the future need for human intervention in IT and OT systems should be reduced by the self-evolving IDUNN security suite, which is modular and adaptable to different scenarios.  

The focus of the IDUNN project was thus on:  

• increasing trust in IT and OT systems as parts of the ICT infrastructure;    
• reducing the labour force required to ensure increasingly sophisticated cyber security;    
• increasing available response time while reducing recovery time from critical digital events; and    
• ensuring business continuity by securing digital technologies, services, and tools.    

The confidence of companies in the ongoing transformation to digital business operations can only be sustainably ensured through the intelligent safeguarding of ICT infrastructure.

DIN, as a partner in this project, managed the standardization activities and supported the project consortium in all matters relating to standardization. 

Project results

The overarching goals of the standardization activities led by DIN were

• to analyze the current standardization landscape and advise the researchers on the application of suitable standardization documents in order to support their progress;
• to identify suitable standardization potentials stemming from project partners‘ research;
• to develop a suitable standardization strategy to transfer these potentials into standardization via (multiple) approaches;
• to conduct the laid-out standardization strategy; and
• to disseminate the achieved standardization results.

In order to transfer IDUNN’s results into standardization, a Standardization paper was developed which covers relevant findings of the project, also pointing out in which regard future revisions of the IEC 62443 standards series could benefit from a respective consideration. Standardization Paper Download

More information on DIN’s analysis of the current standardization landscape can be found here here.

For more information on IDUNN please visit: https://www.idunnproject.eu/

Project duration

September 2021 – August 2024

Project coordinator

• IKERLAN S. COOP (Spain)

Project partners

• ASOCIACION DE INDUSTRIAS DE CONOCIMIENTO Y TECNOLOGIA - GAIA - EUSKALHERRIKO EZAGUTZA ETA TEKNOLOGIA INDUSTRIEN ELKARTEA (Spain)
• BITTIUM WIRELESS OY (Finland)
• COSYNTH GMBH & CO KG (Germany)
• DIN DEUTSCHES INSTITUT FUER NORMUNG E.V. (Germany)
• FAGOR ARRASATE S COOP (Spain)
• GRUPO S 21SEC GESTION SA (Spain)
• MONDRAGON ASSEMBLY SA (France)
• OFFIS EV (Germany)
• OULUN YLIOPISTO (Finland)

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101021911.