National CIP Workshop

KEMEA, being the Greek National Contact Point of the European Program on Critical Infrastructure Protection (EPCIP), in cooperation with the ARGOS project and the CIPRE-NET project represented by the Joint Research Center Ispra of the European Commission, jointly organized a two-day workshop on "Protection of Critical Infrastructures".

The training program was held on KEMEA premises on the 14 & 15 December, 2015 and was attended by over 160 specialist representatives on critical infrastructures. In the framework of presenting the European acquis, expert speakers from KEMEA and the Joint Research Center presented innovative methods and solutions for the protection of critical facilities against man-made and natural risks.

ARGOS Final Trial

The ARGOS FP7 Project successfully organized the 2nd Field Trial in Athens, Greece deploying the CI protection solution under development at the premises of the NCSR Demokritos facility. The system testing and demonstration in a properly designed field trial took place on the 3^rd of December 2015. The trial was attended by several End Users originating from Greece as well by critical infrastructure protection operators and security experts invited from different EU countries.  The scenarios used during the trial dealt with several different types of attacks against a gas plant or installations. For this purpose a mesh network of different types of sensors including vibration and video sensors, as well as Wake-up Cameras were deployed in a buffer zone outside the perimeter of the facility in order to extend the protection of the critical infrastructure (distribution station, gas pipeline) beyond its perimeter from potential intruders.