Joint Exploitation Workshop

On the 20th of November 2025, EMERALD joined a multi-project exploitation workshop hosted by Engineering Group in Rome. As the project moves forward, we are entering a critical phase: turning the tools and technologies we have developed into real-world impact. This workshop aimed to bring together consortium partners from different active EU projects, all members of the EC3 cluster, sharing overlapping research interests and innovation goals in cyber security and certification: TELEMETRY, DOSS, COBALT and EMERALD.

The workshop was arranged as a hybrid meeting – with nine persons attending on premise and a similar number joining online. We would like to thank Engineering Group for organising and hosting the event.

Vision

Stakeholders from a variety of different groups – e.g., user groups, industry stakeholders, potential adopters and standardisation experts – came together from the different projects to discuss and co-design joint exploitation strategies. Our goal is to ensure that EMERALD’s outcomes reach their full potential by enabling sustainable adoption, compliance integration, and market readiness, by sharing our ideas across teams and projects. Exploring synergies across projects can help identify opportunities for shared use of data, software tools, and common ground on regulations and policies.

Agenda

The workshop included dedicated sessions in which each project presented its goals and tools. For EMERALD, this included an overview of the current EMERALD framework via the UI and its components (e.g., Compliance-as-a-Service, metrics, auditing support). This exchange enabled the participants to identify and discuss similarities among the projects (e.g. the technical approaches, data collection for systems under test or targets of evaluation) and to discuss some potential collaboration activities.

Action points

In an interactive session, two groups collaborated on the exploitation canvas (or business model canvas), a strategic tool that helps visualise how a project creates, delivers, and captures value, offering a shared structure for discussing exploitation opportunities. This activity allowed us to examine common key activities, key resources, value propositions, and channels, resulting in several potential collaborations to explore, such as:

• joint white papers,
• scientific papers,
• conferences,
• workshops,
• technical reports,
• shared data sets.

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