Regional Cable Hubs
European Commission · Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL)
Posted 1 Sept 2026 · About 4 months left
Summary
Expected Outcome:
The Regional cable hubs will contribute to enhancing and consolidating collective situational awareness and capabilities in detection, supporting the development of an operational capacities to ensure the security and resilience of undersea cables.
The hubs should act as a central point allowing for broader pooling of data and information relevant for the security environment of the cables, enabling the dissemination of threat information and incident detection on a regional scale and among a diverse set of national actors as designated by each Member States (e.g. National Hubs, CSIRTs.)
The Hubs should allow a rapid exchange of information, even if classified among participating authorities in a given hub. To that end, the participating authorities shall set procedural arrangements on cooperation and information sharing.
Furthermore, regional cable hubs could also benefit from additional solutions for the surveillance and protection of submarine cables, and the detection of malicious activities. For instance, situational awareness performed through the collection and analysis of in-situ, sea-based sensor data as well as relevant satellite imagery or undersea…
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Themes
- Cable Surveillance
- Critical Infrastructure Protection
- Maritime Security
- Regional Security Cooperation
- Satellite Monitoring
- Secure Information Sharing
- Sensor Data Analytics
- Situational Awareness
- Submarine Cable Security
- Telecommunications Security
- Threat Detection
- Communication engineering and systems telecommunications
- Communication network
- Cybersecurity
- Cybersecurity Domains
- Defence
- Geo-information and spatial data analysis
- Managerial, procedural and technical aspects of network security
- Maritime
- Network technologies / Internetworking