KINAITICS

The primary goals of KINAITICS include: (i) Designing an Integrated Framework: this involves creating a framework that consolidates legal, ethical, and technical requirements to ensure human-aware cyber-physical security. (ii) Evaluating Risks and Potential Attacks Involving AI: The project aims to go beyond the current state-of-the-art in assessing risks associated with cyber-physical attacks, particularly those that leverage AI technologies. (iii) Innovating Defense Strategies: KINAITICS seeks to develop defense strategies that are more advanced than the current practices in cyber-physical systems security.

The project promotes collaboration between technical and legal stakeholders, aligning its efforts with use case holders. It encompasses a methodology that includes detailed use case analyses, descriptions of attack and defense building blocks, and progress in combining various cyber and physical strategies.

Interleaved with its technical objectives, the KINAITICS project has several objectives concerning the legal and standardisation aspects:

• Mapping Technical, Legal, and Ethical Requirements: part of the action is dedicated to mapping the technical, legal, and ethical requirements relevant to the project. This includes fundamental legal research on the applicable requirements and how they relate to AI-enabled cyber-attacks and cyber-defense​​.
• Ensuring Compliance with Legal and Ethical Standards: The project aims to ensure legal and ethics compliance to contribute to Trustworthy AI. By integrating technical and legal requirements, KINAITICS facilitates interactions that enable a comprehensive understanding and management of these aspects​​.
• Focus on AI Safety and Cybersecurity Regulations: The project places emphasis on regulations related to AI safety and cybersecurity, including GDPR, NIS Directive, AI Act Proposal, and others. It aims to identify best practices and guidelines on ethical research and legal compliance, including data protection and security principles​​.
• Proposing Updates to Legal Frameworks: KINAITICS also involves proposing updates to the current legal framework, aligning it with the evolving realities of Information Technologies (IT) and Operational Technologies (OT) convergence. The project seeks to provide guidance and feedback on regulations, particularly those under development, such as the AI Act​​.
• Transfer results and practices into standardisation initiatives 

These objectives collectively aim to address the legal complexities and challenges arising from the integration of AI technologies in cyber-physical systems, ensuring that KINAITICS aligns with current legal standards and contributes to the development of a more coherent legal framework for AI and cybersecurity.

Reason for applying to HSbooster.eu services

As cybersecurity is targeted in the project, the project's goal is that results achieved pave the way for improved practices on the field of cybersecurity in complex cyber-physical systems.

At this stage, the project has identified that application domains targeted by KINAITICS will be relevant to introduce new standards. One partner is involved in such actions in the healthcare domain.

The project needs to identify the best level of action for standardisation in other use cases (transportation, software).

The project needs some help to find relevant groups to be involved in.