CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub

Cyber Security in Estonia 2026 provides an overview of 2025. Read it at: ria.ee/en/cyber-secur… PDF: ria.ee/sites/default/… 📷

@CHESS_EU meeting 2026 at Tallinn, Estonia @CyberTaltech hosted the 4th @CHESS_EU consortium meeting on January 28–29. The meeting brought together a diverse consortium of experts from academic institutions (@FI_MUNI, @UniTartuCS, @vutvbrne, @CyberTaltech), private companies (@cybernetica, @Guardtime, @RedHat) , government agencies (@e_riik), and NGOs (@NUKIB_CZ) across Estonia and South Moravia, Czechia. Their shared mission: to inject fresh momentum into six core CHESS challenge areas as the project approaches its culmination. More: chess-eu.cs.ut.ee/2026/02/10/che…

We’ll Deal with Cybersecurity Later – Strategy or a Ticking Time Bomb? Held in late January 2026, sTARTUp Day—the largest business festival in the Baltics—once again brought the startup community together, with more than 3,000 attendees over three days of inspiration and networking. @MariSeeba (@CHESS_EU, @UniTartuCS, @e_riik) delivered a practical seminar on the shifting landscape of cybersecurity. More: chess-eu.cs.ut.ee/2026/02/04/wel…

Submit your research results to the Baltic Conference on Digital Business and Intelligent Systems Baltic DB&IS 2026 Tartu, Estonia dbis2026.cs.ut.ee The 17th International Baltic Conference on Digital Business and Intelligent Systems (Baltic DB&IS 2026), Tartu, Estonia — Submission deadline: 1 March 2026 — Notification: 20 April 2026 See more guidelines: dbis2026.cs.ut.ee/Main/Submissio…

@CHESS_EU #event Tartu Brokerage event (November 11, 2025) CA6: Human-Centric Aspects of Cyber-Security See youtu.be/MWaoEN4IyUs?si… Strategic Priorities: -- Improve automated feedback systems for cybersecurity training. -- Improve usability of cybersecurity solutions for ICT professionals.

@CHESS_EU #event Tartu Brokerage event (November 11, 2025) CA5: Post-Quantum Cryptography See youtu.be/RBZdOfGWb94 Strategic Priorities: -- Evaluate the current state and practical applicability of post-quantum technologies. -- Assess usability & market viability of information security products based on post-quantum algorithms.

@CHESS_EU #event Tartu Brokerage event (November 11, 2025) CA4: Verification of Trustworthy Software See youtu.be/rLuGKCw0N5w Strategic Priorities: -- Illustrate the state-of-the-art use of blockchain in the vehicular communication environment. -- Develop building blocks for hardware wallets with multiparty computation (MPC). -- Investigate privacy-enhancing technologies used in the Bitcoin blockchain.

@CHESS_EU #event Tartu Brokerage event (November 11, 2025) CA3: Verification of Trustworthy Software See youtu.be/wnPCDlNpvds?si… Strategic Priorities: -- Utilise program analysis techniques to enhance software development. -- Develop a theory of composable cybersecurity protocols to provide visual representations of organisational cybersecurity protocols that are understandable to non-experts. -- Identify practically motivated challenges for basic research that are not yet addressed by existing methodologies.

@CHESS_EU #event Tartu Brokerage event (November 11, 2025), CA2: Security Certification See youtu.be/lM-iKNWJRsY?si… Strategic Priorities: -- Develop lightweight and automated (re)certification processes to ensure scalability. -- Explain vulnerabilities in certified devices by structuring certification documents that could be easily (deterministically) processed in an automated fashion to enable linkage of certification data to new knowledge regarding vulnerabilities within certified devices (CVEs, etc.). -- Develop methods of cybersecurity certification and deployment that ensure all layers and threats are correctly weighted. Cross-referencing certified items to vulnerability databases, like common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs). -- Develop security certification labels for devices, software and organisations that provide a simple and unambiguous depiction of the level(s) of the security being certified.

@CHESS_EU #event Tartu Brokerage event (November 11, 2025), CA1: Internet of Secure Things See youtu.be/Hk21RSZ1fmE?si… Strategic Priorities -- Promote effective approaches that public and private organisations can take to support the transition to and securely manage Internet of Secure Things (IoST) systems. -- Develop, validate and deploy IoST systems in various sectors, such as transportation. -- Analyse the security of IoST systems with advanced technologies.

@CHESS_EU #event Opening of Tartu Brokerage event (November 11, 2025), see at youtu.be/2je3DO7h2CM The EU-funded @CHESS_EU aims to develop a joint cross-border cyber-security research and innovation strategy and run pilots to support the identification of strengths and gaps, focusing on six challenge areas: * Internet of #Secure #things * #Security #Certification * #verification of #Trustworthy #Software * Security #Preservation in #Blockchain * #PostQuantum #Cryptography * #human-centric #Aspects of #CyberSecurity

Thrilled to host Muhammed Erbas from @TallinnTech! Together with Sandesh and Daniel, he created the first @CHESS_EU maritime cybersecurity tabletop exercise on #INJECT - and even ran it for @FI_MUNI and @TallinnTech students. Public release coming soon!

@CHESS_EU #event Attendees from Universities and companies in Estonia, Czechia, Ukraine, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and other countries gathered for the CHESS brokerage event on November 11, 2025, organised by @UniTartuCS. — Internet of Secure Things — Security Certification — Verification of Trustworthy Software — Security Preservation in Blockchain — Post-Quantum Cryptography — Human-centric Aspects of Cyber-Security -- See at: youtu.be/MZsBIwRUNes?si…

The 30th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems (NordSec) The University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science is hosting NordSec 2025 on November 12-13, 2025, in #Tartu, #Estonia. Registration: nordsec2025.cs.ut.ee/Main/Registrat… Program: nordsec2025.cs.ut.ee/Main/Program @CHESS_EU #conference

Post-quantum cryptography is here, and so are the threats. We hosted 50+ experts from academia, industry & government to explore where PQC is used today & how to meet new EU/national requirements. Live demos included!

@CHESS_EU collaboration between @e_riik and @NUKIB_CZ results in the Cybersecurity Level Evaluation Instrument (#F4SLE). Find out more at chess-eu.cs.ut.ee

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From academia to real-world impact. 🤝 Collaboration across sectors is at the core of the CHESS project. And we’re proud to see it reflected in tangible results. Perun, an #opensource toolkit for tracking performance across software versions, is one example.

@CHESS_EU #paper ⁉️ How can functional threat modelling support structured and context-aware security analysis in cyber-physical manufacturing environments? See chess-eu.cs.ut.ee/2025/09/18/fun… 🚀 The work proposes a method for linking functional operations to adversarial tactics, providing a semantically grounded alternative to abstract risk modelling. The resulting artefact enables security practitioners and engineers to prioritise mitigations based on real asset behaviour, supporting scalable and context-aware defence planning. #cyberphysicalsystems, #industrialautomation, #threatmodeling, #mitreattack, #Rami, #IndustrialRobotics