End-use/stakeholder requirements

Today’s organizations need to be cyber resilient, equipped with advanced cybersecurity capabilities for ensuring quick recovery in the face of crippling modern cyber threats. The EU-funded SECANT project will develop an innovative cyber security risk assessment platform to enhance these capabilities to tackle cascading cyber threats and vulnerabilities, increasing privacy, data protection and accountability across the entire interconnected ICT ecosystem. During the implementation of WP2, SECANT project’s consortium partners performed a user and stakeholder requirements analysis in order to obtain relevant feedback and information to design and refine the use cases scenarios to be developed and tested and for the SECANT Platform‘s architecture design. The WP2 implementation started with Task 2.1- User requirements specification, with direct involvement of following partners: POLARIS; NTTDES, KI, CERTH, 8BELLS, UBI, AXON, THALES, CLS, SIMAVI, IANUS, DNSC, BI2S, INF, TICSALUT, ADR, SLC. The period of Task 2.1 implementation was M01-M08. Under Task 2.1 the activities focused to collect the requirements of the different SECANT stakeholders (e.g. clients, professionals) obtained through standard techniques (online questionnaires and focus groups). The list of these requirements regarding the SECANT platform functionalities will be used to validate the SECANT platform in WP6 and guide the development of the different modules during the project. Then, KPIs will be devised (based on these requirements) to create a set of measurable goals for the SECANT platform validation. This deliverable includes the results of task 2.1, reporting on the feedback received during consultations with the end-users/stakeholders. The list of the end-user/stakeholder requirements identified is included in the present document (D2.1). For each requirement, it has been presented a brief description about its role within the SECANT Platform and based on the feedback data collected during research process, it has been calculated the score as the average value of scores granted by the online questionnaire respondents. Respondents were invited to give a score from 1 to 5, where 5 is the maximum. The requirements that scored less than 3 are considered NICE TO HAVE; those with a score between 3 and 4 are considered SHOULD HAVE, and those with a score above 4 are considered MUST HAVE requirements. The results presented in this Deliverable 2.1 will be used for refining the technical requirements during Task 2.2 and later during project implementation to validate SECANT platform functionalities