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
Borderless Cooperation
Interreg Nord has together with Interreg Botnia-Atlantica produced a book to show the breadth of the cross-border projects and the strength that will work together. Out of the 184 cross-border projects, our CYNIC-project was showcased in this book together with 13 other project. Please feel free to read more: Borderless
Satsa på datasäkerhet!
Den teknologiska utvecklingen går framåt och digitala lösningar blir allt mer utbredda, men skuggsidan är att man samtidigt också ökar attackytan. Antalet brott mot datasäkerheten ökar varje år, och enligt en rapport av Cybersecurity Ventures från 2020 beräknas en utpressningsattack ske var elfte sekund. En utpressningsattack är kanske det mest allmänna datasäkerhetshot som existerar i […]
The Cybersecurity of Robotic Systems
The market of intelligent machines, which includes autonomous robots, is growing rapidly (Pfeiffer S. 2016). The IFR report shows that over 3 million industrial robots are already operating in factories around the world (IFR 2021). Robots play a crucial role in our society, and they provide vital help in many different fields, such as the […]
Greetings: Mr.Charles Ponzi
Centria Bulletin published an article “Junkmail conversations” written by our Cynic-colleague Olli Isohanni: Have you been curious what happens if you reply to junk mail? We at Centria SecuLab have tested it so that you do not need to! There is usually little or no danger in the process of receiving and opening a spam […]
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Activity Charts
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.
