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 – Agenda and Speakers
Now we have confirmed all speakers and the agenda are set. Number of seats are limited and participants have started to sign up. CyberNorth Sign up here!
CyberNorth | 2020-02-27 | 09:00 – 16:00 | Vetenskapens Hus, Luleå
Invitation to our Swedish speaking friends: Cyber North – ett i särklass informativt event för säker hantering av risk 2020-02-27 | 09:00 – 16:00 | Vetenskapens Hus, Luleå Välkommen till en spännande dag, där vi blandar talare med demonstrationer. Eventet är öppet och gratis för alla som anmält sig, och lunch ingår såklart. Begränsat antal […]
Visit from Interreg Nord
In the end of November, we had the opportunity to show the financier InterregNord our mobile lab and introduced some demos and show the result of hard work and great ideas that have been combined into for example an easy to play card game, this mobile lab and training material in terms of a test […]
Master Thesis Proposal
The following is a proposal for a Master Thesis that we are announcing, anyone who is interested and about to write their thesis is welcome to contact us for more information. Information Security Red-Teaming: Attack and Defense Exercises for the Security Novice The purpose of this proposed master thesis is to chart the requirements of […]
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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.
