Logistics

Cyber Resilience Center

This project is aimed at improving the resilience of the supply chain of the Port of Barcelona, strengthening the response capacity of more than 450 companies against potential cyberattacks.

Type of innovation: Disruptive
Project status: In progress

Parties involved

Promotors

Sustainable Development Goals

ODS

(Sustainable Development Goals)

ODS 1

Background

In the port sector there is no precedent for an initiative like this. However, in other sectors such as finance, systemic risk analysis exercises are already being carried out, especially by regulators and supervisors. From the Foundation, we are driving a similar line of action, but pioneering within the logistics-port ecosystem.

Description

The project is based on a systemic vision: the Port Authority is a system made up of many other systems, and its overall security depends on the strength of each of them. In an environment made up of over 450 companies, this project aims to improve the cyber resilience of the entire supply chain, approaching the process in a transversal, collaborative and integrative way.

The initiative is currently in the innovation phase, with a complex pilot test and a limited initial number of participants, to allow for in-depth work and result validation.

This pioneering proposal is born with a clear intention for scalability and open collaboration among all agents, both the most advanced and those with less experience or digital maturity.

Goals

  • Improve the cyber security and resilience of the Port of Barcelona’s supply chain.
  • Promote a systemic view of security, understanding that the robustness of the whole depends on that of each part.
  • Validate the model with a complex use case before scaling it to the entire port community.
  • Promote transversal collaboration between companies and diverse actors, regardless of their digital maturity.
  • Gradually extend the project to all interested companies in the port and, subsequently, to the international port sector.
  • Consolidate a replicable and innovative model that could become a benchmark in port cyber resilience.