Our objectives
Innovation & Capabilities
Increase internationalization capabilities of digital services
Explore & Fail forward
Promote entrepreneurship, i.e., proactive, innovative and tactical risk management
Learn & Take actions
Stimulate and evaluate new business models including risk assessments.
What else DO WE AIM AT?
Identify Challenges for Digital Business Development
Studies to identify challenges for digital business development, IT strategies and information security management and action plans, from technology and business aspects.
Test, Experience and Learn about Information Security
Use cases and pilot demonstrations, including testing and evaluating dynamic environments for experimentation and learning about information security including business models.
Exploration of Emergent Technologies
Exploration of emergent technologies and its applicability for digital business models.
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Project Members
Who we are
The project is a cooperation between two academic partner Centria-ammattikorkeakoulu, Finland and Luleå University of Technology, Sweden.
- A cross-border collaboration that will support SMEs
- Physical and virtual lab environment
- Learn from each other and learn about shared challenges and problems
What our partners and researchers say
Our goal is to promote entrepreneurship, i.e. proactive, innovative and tactical risk taking by offering demonstrators and workshops that problematize established practices,
Better insights and sound IT behaviour can be gained through testing and evaluating new business models in a safe testing environment
Latest news
Arctic Awards 2020
The Arctic Awards is an annual project competition designed to highlight exceptional projects focusing on topics of particular relevance to the Arctic area.
Instance Lab – Cyber Range
The Instance Lab was designed as a mobile cyber range to provide the capability of hosting digital twins and allow for training and gamified exercises regarding Information-, IT-, and Cybersecurity. In this effort, we are happy to announce that Instance Lab is now listed in the report on existing cyber ranges and requirements as provided […]
Welcome Anton Holmström & Simon Andersson
Simon Andersson and Anton Holmström strengthen the team in the CYNIC project with a focus on organizational information security in collaboration with regional small and medium-sized companies.
On the design of playful training material for information security awareness
New paper: On the design of playful training material for information security awareness https://doi.org/10.35199/ICDC.2020.30 Researcher from the CYNIC-project presented a paper during The Sixth International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC2020) Oulu, Finland, August 26th – 28th 2020. Abstract: This paper presents the rationale for the design of a card deck game sustaining information security […]
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About Cynic
CYNIC – Cyber security in Innovation and Business Communication
The project has identified that an uncertainty and a risk focus is an obstacle to SMEs willingness to invest in new business models which are tailored for digitalisation and digital services. Better insights and sound IT behaviour can be gained through testing and evaluating new business models in a safe testing environment. The project aims at (1) promoting entrepreneurship, i.e. proactive, innovative and tactical risk taking by offering demonstrators and workshops that problematize established practices, (2) increase SMEs capabilities to internationalization by providing a collaborative approach for different companies to quickly and effectively address common challenges and opportunities, as well as (3) stimulate and evaluate new business models by developing testable scenarios and exposing them to realistic risks and countermeasures, thereby contributing to increased entrepreneurship and stimulating the ongoing development of a new digital service industry in the region.
