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
CyberNorth
2021-09-28 | 09:00 – 11:00 | online Welcome to an exciting morning, where we mix speakers from industry and cyber security. The event is open and free for everyone who registers. Speaker names will be published on; https://cybernorth.se/ See you in September! Digitization is increasing in the process industry – so is the interest from […]
Instance Lab
For practical cyber security training on distance, virtually, or physically. The objective is to provide an interactive platform for practical, hands-on learning using realistic scenarios, tailored exercises, and gamified challenges. Instance Lab emphasizes a safe, isolated training environment where users dare test, experiment, and do faults. Sounds interesting? Contact us if you want to know […]
Welcome to House of CYNIC – A Virtual Exhibition on Cyber Security
We want to go back to a “normal” life. But what is the new normal? We want to go to theater, restaurants and coffee shops. We want to meet our colleagues in the office and have a lunch break together. We want to study together and see our teachers face to face. The pandemic has […]
Phishing affects us all
An email that contains a link or an attachment is sent to the recipient with the purpose of retrieving data by directing the user to some fake web page on the internet, or by executing a malicious code from an attachment. Phishing campaigns often use the same formula. An email that contains a link or […]
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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.
