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
Project meeting in Storforsen
The project team had a physical work meeting at the foot of Storforsen. On the agenda was cross-border cases, e.g., one in which the technical team from Centria will perform Penetration Test on a product from one of the Swedish partner companies. A prototype of a card deck game and a risk ladder exercise were […]
Project of the month
We are very proud to announce that the CYNIC project has been selected as the project of the month by the financier Interreg Nord http://www.interregnord.com/manadens-projekt-cynic/
The conceptions of digitalization in business of small and medium-sized enterprises in Ylivieska and nearby
A survey to SMEs in Ylivieska region was conducted as part of a thesis work. The objective of the thesis was to find out how cybersecurity or the lack thereof affects SMEs abilities to increase the use of digital tools and services in their business. The goal was also to find out what kind of […]
Information Security Morning Coffee
Local companies were invited to participate in a 3 hour seminar on Information security in Kokkola on 9th April and in Ylivieska on 10th April 2019. The topics were: Vulnerabilities, Malware, and Security breaches – Juha-Matti Heljaste / F-Secure Information Security Services in The Area – Joni Jämsä / Centria University of Applied Sciences From […]
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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.
