CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub

A Cybersecurity Excellence Hub: Estonia and South Moravia for EU’s safe digitalisation.

[CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub @CHESS_EU]

As part of the Czech President’s state visit to Estonia, a business delegation meeting was held at @UniTartuCS.
We exchanged ideas for the research and collaboration. Special attention was given to ongoing research projects such as @CHESS_EU, #SECURENET, @CCAT_project and #QARQ.

[CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub @CHESS_EU]

🚀 ETACS: Workshop on Education, Training and Awareness in Cybersecurity at #ARES2026

‼️ CALL for PAPERS ‼️

https://t.co/G72nMb73Y8

‼️Submit your papers at: https://t.co/OrUkO1eHyA

Deadlines:

📅 Paper submission: May 01, 2026
📅 Notification: June 01, 2026
📅 SP2I workshop: August 24, 2026
📅 ARES conference: August 24-27, 2026

[CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub @CHESS_EU]

🚀 SP2I: 6th International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Intelligent Infrastructures at @ARES_Conference 2026

‼️ CALL for PAPERS ‼️

https://t.co/AXyRx8j59v

‼️Submit your papers at: https://t.co/OrUkO1e9J2

Deadlines:
📅 Paper submission: May 05, 2026
📅 Notification: May 25, 2026
📅 SP2I workshop: August 24, 2026
📅 ARES conference: August 24-27, 2026

More info at: https://t.co/AXyRx8j59v

[CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub @CHESS_EU]

@CHESS_EU Demo Day 19.03.2026

The @CHESS_EU Demo Day organised by @e_riik to demonstrate #cybersecurity methods and tools

🛠️ INJECT TableTops platform.
More: https://t.co/vWX3ZWbtkT

🛠️ FPGA Quantum-Safe Encryptor.
More: https://t.co/9HE9ryKyGA

🛠️ MeeSign: Threshold cryptography demonstrator. More: https://t.co/6FcQItZzrD

🛠️ FREAS - a modelling and analysis tool for forensic-ready software systems.
More: https://t.co/B8QUZ8kU1b

🛠️ sec-certs - a tool to explore the Common Criteria / FIPS 140 certification ecosystem.
More: https://t.co/l3IxkaeLgt

[CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub @CHESS_EU]

Cyber Security in Estonia 2026 provides an overview of 2025.

Read it at: https://t.co/sL4Q7u30tF
PDF: https://t.co/BMZZKOY6j5

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[CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub @CHESS_EU]

@CHESS_EU meeting 2026 at Tallinn, Estonia

@CyberTaltech hosted the 4th @CHESS_EU consortium meeting on January 28–29. The meeting brought together a diverse consortium of experts from academic institutions (@FI_MUNI, @UniTartuCS, @vutvbrne, @CyberTaltech), private companies (@cybernetica, @Guardtime, @RedHat) , government agencies (@e_riik), and NGOs (@NUKIB_CZ) across Estonia and South Moravia, Czechia. Their shared mission: to inject fresh momentum into six core CHESS challenge areas as the project approaches its culmination.

More: https://t.co/HkbyP3MVNw

[CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub @CHESS_EU]

We’ll Deal with Cybersecurity Later – Strategy or a Ticking Time Bomb?

Held in late January 2026, sTARTUp Day—the largest business festival in the Baltics—once again brought the startup community together, with more than 3,000 attendees over three days of inspiration and networking.

@MariSeeba (@CHESS_EU, @UniTartuCS, @e_riik)
delivered a practical seminar on the shifting landscape of cybersecurity.

More: https://t.co/Ix4AWgFA8m

[CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub @CHESS_EU]

Submit your research results to the Baltic Conference on Digital Business and Intelligent Systems

Baltic DB&IS 2026 Tartu, Estonia
https://t.co/iIVWPxiP0h

The 17th International Baltic Conference on Digital Business and Intelligent Systems (Baltic DB&IS 2026),
Tartu, Estonia

— Submission deadline: 1 March 2026
— Notification: 20 April 2026

See more guidelines: https://t.co/Qbe5IvHtB8

[CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub @CHESS_EU]

@CHESS_EU #event

Tartu Brokerage event (November 11, 2025)
CA6: Human-Centric Aspects of Cyber-Security

See https://t.co/JQgEQVOKWj

Strategic Priorities:
-- Improve automated feedback systems for cybersecurity training.
-- Improve usability of cybersecurity solutions for ICT professionals.

[CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub @CHESS_EU]

@CHESS_EU #event

Tartu Brokerage event (November 11, 2025)
CA5: Post-Quantum Cryptography
See https://t.co/n3Wn9BLnOp

Strategic Priorities:
-- Evaluate the current state and practical applicability of post-quantum technologies.
-- Assess usability & market viability of information security products based on post-quantum algorithms.

[CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub @CHESS_EU]

@CHESS_EU #event

Tartu Brokerage event (November 11, 2025)

CA4: Verification of Trustworthy Software

See https://t.co/y6KvIddSNP

Strategic Priorities:

-- Illustrate the state-of-the-art use of blockchain in the vehicular communication environment.
-- Develop building blocks for hardware wallets with multiparty computation (MPC).
-- Investigate privacy-enhancing technologies used in the Bitcoin blockchain.

[CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub @CHESS_EU]

@CHESS_EU #event

Tartu Brokerage event (November 11, 2025)
CA3: Verification of Trustworthy Software

See https://t.co/EvT6odRejN

Strategic Priorities:

-- Utilise program analysis techniques to enhance software development.
-- Develop a theory of composable cybersecurity protocols to provide visual representations of organisational cybersecurity protocols that are understandable to non-experts.
-- Identify practically motivated challenges for basic research that are not yet addressed by existing methodologies.

[CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub @CHESS_EU]

@CHESS_EU #event

Tartu Brokerage event (November 11, 2025),

CA2: Security Certification

See https://t.co/PUsW0St3tT

Strategic Priorities:
-- Develop lightweight and automated (re)certification processes to ensure scalability.
-- Explain vulnerabilities in certified devices by structuring certification documents that could be easily (deterministically) processed in an automated fashion to enable linkage of certification data to new knowledge regarding vulnerabilities within certified devices (CVEs, etc.).
-- Develop methods of cybersecurity certification and deployment that ensure all layers and threats are correctly weighted. Cross-referencing certified items to vulnerability databases, like common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs).
-- Develop security certification labels for devices, software and organisations that provide a simple and unambiguous depiction of the level(s) of the security being certified.

[CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub @CHESS_EU]

@CHESS_EU #event

Tartu Brokerage event (November 11, 2025),

CA1: Internet of Secure Things
See https://t.co/g2n63hPqI5

Strategic Priorities
-- Promote effective approaches that public and private organisations can take to support the transition to and securely manage Internet of Secure Things (IoST) systems.
-- Develop, validate and deploy IoST systems in various sectors, such as transportation.
-- Analyse the security of IoST systems with advanced technologies.

[CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub @CHESS_EU]

@CHESS_EU #event

Opening of Tartu Brokerage event (November 11, 2025), see at https://t.co/YW5Uh0tH1a

The EU-funded @CHESS_EU aims to develop a joint cross-border cyber-security research and innovation strategy and run pilots to support the identification of strengths and gaps, focusing on six challenge areas:

* Internet of #Secure #things
* #Security #Certification
* #verification of #Trustworthy #Software
* Security #Preservation in #Blockchain
* #PostQuantum #Cryptography
* #human-centric #Aspects of #CyberSecurity

[CYBERSECMUNI @cybersecmuni]

Thrilled to host Muhammed Erbas from @TallinnTech! Together with Sandesh and Daniel, he created the first @CHESS_EU maritime cybersecurity tabletop exercise on #INJECT - and even ran it for @FI_MUNI and @TallinnTech students. Public release coming soon!

[CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub @CHESS_EU]

@CHESS_EU #event
Attendees from Universities and companies in Estonia, Czechia, Ukraine, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and other countries gathered for the CHESS brokerage event on November 11, 2025, organised by @UniTartuCS.

— Internet of Secure Things
— Security Certification
— Verification of Trustworthy Software
— Security Preservation in Blockchain
— Post-Quantum Cryptography
— Human-centric Aspects of Cyber-Security

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See at: https://t.co/bXp5neb0vs

[Mubashar Iqbal Bajwa @MubasharBajwa]

The 30th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems (NordSec)

The University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science is hosting NordSec 2025 on November 12-13, 2025, in #Tartu, #Estonia.

Registration: https://t.co/aUsK96385R

Program: https://t.co/7fnw0dILcK

@CHESS_EU #conference

[CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub @CHESS_EU]

Post-quantum cryptography is here, and so are the threats.

We hosted 50+ experts from academia, industry & government to explore where PQC is used today & how to meet new EU/national requirements. Live demos included!