Overview
Lobbying Costs
75,000€
Financial year: May 2018 - Apr 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
9.5 Fte (12)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Cyberlens (CLS)
EU Transparency Register
870374835688-15 First registered on 22 Aug 2019
Goals / Remit
Cyberlens Ltd is an innovative SME specialising in cyber security and privacy engineering. The company was established in April 2015 and is based in London, UK, while it also operates in the Netherlands through its subsidiary, Cyberlens B.V.
The compay’s team consists of experts with solid background and hands-on experience in research and innovation, combined with an insatiable desire for developing novel solutions for prominent cybersecurity challenges and technologies, ranging from large-scale 5G infrastructures to Internet of Things (IoT) environments and driverless vehicles. The interdisciplinary and multinational character of the company as a result of the diversified backgrounds and the combination of different areas of specialisation of our team members, facilitates both its adjustment to the vast changing ICT sector and also its effective response to highly demanding research challenges.
CyberLens was established to undertake both theoretic and applied research, shape the development of complex software, and disseminate knowledge by working hand-in-hand with European large industries, SMEs, research centres and universities. The company's portfolio includes software development, IT research, and business consultancy. CyberLens’s executive team members have a rich track record in developing software, publishing their research in high impact factor venues, attracting research and innovation fund and participating successfully in research and innovation projects. CyberLens’s focus areas are:
• Cyber security risk management
• Dynamic vulnerability assessment
• Cyber security investment decision support
• Security and privacy requirements engineering
• 5G Security, including security for virtualised environments
• Security and privacy for the Internet of Things (IoT)
• Security for cyber-physical systems (including unmanned robotic vehicles)
• Security of critical infrastructures (which include large-scale, complex systems such as healthcare infrastructures, power and energy systems, telecommunication networks, etc.)
• Collaborative intrusion detection and classification
• Cyber defence optimisation based on game theoryMain EU files targeted
Due to its specialisation and focus on state-of-the-art applied research, Cyberlens follows all EU initiatives, policies and legislative framework relevant to cybersecurity and privacy, cyber-physical security, cyber defence decision strategies, mobile network security, sensor network security. The most fundamental ones are the following:
- The Directive on security of network and information systems (NIS Directive), providing legal measures to boost the overall level of cybersecurity in the EU, along with the COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL Making the most of NIS – towards the effective implementation of Directive (EU) 2016/1148 concerning measures for a high common level of security of network and information systems across the Union (COM/2017/0476 final).
- The ePrivacy Directive (Directive on Privacy and Electronic communications) and the General Data Protection Regulation, ensuring that personal data enjoy a high standard of protection everywhere in the EU.
- The EU Cybersecurity Act, establishing an EU certification framework for ICT digital products, services and processes, enabling the creation of tailored and risk-based EU certification schemes.
Moreover, Cyberlens follows closely the work and publications made by the Cybersecurity & Digital Privacy Policy - Unit H.2 (mainly through the Cybersecurity and digital privacy newsletter) and ENISA (eg. Consultation Paper - EU ICT Industrial Policy: Breaking the Cycle of Failure).
At the same time, Cyberlens follows closely all H2020 calls and publications referring to its areas of specialisation, while it also monitors all major EU initiatives, policies and legislative amendments to economic sectors of interest, such as telecommunications, automotive, healthcare, energy etc.Address
Head Office
6 Hays Lane, London Bridge
London SE1 2HB
UNITED KINGDOM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
12
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 8 50% 2 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
9.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
Cyberlens maintains a wide network of highly skilled, experience professionals, with differentiated backgrounds and complementary areas of expertise, combining both technical and managerial backgrounds.
The human resources of the company involved in its activities and operations include:
- The Managing Director (Mr Georgios Alexopoulos)
- The Head of Research and Development (Dr Irene Karapistoli)
- The Head of Engineering (Dr Orestis Mavropoulos)
- One Senior Researcher (Dr Nikolaos Argyropoulos)
- One Software Architect (Dr Grant Paul Millar)
- Four Software Engineers (Mr Matthias Ghering, Mr Ms Danae Andriopoulou, Mr Nikolaos Panourakis, Mr Majid Nateghizad, Mr Theofilos Konstantinos, and Mr. Anastasios Kafchitsas)
- Two Technical Advisors (Dr Charalampos Xanthopoulakis and Ms Vasiliki Markaki)
Besides the above mentioned professionals, there is also administrative personnel (Mr Phil Grayling)Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
I - Professional consultancies/law firms/self-employed consultants
Subcategory
Professional consultancies
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
May 2018 - Apr 2019
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
75,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
258,093 € (Source: Horizon 2020)
Other financial info
The total cost of the company is relatively low compared with the level of revenue because 6 of the total 12 people involved in the operation of the company are shareholders not employees, receiving only dividends from the company and not salaries. So, the salaries only of 6 people are calculated in the total costs of the company.
Moreover, during the period of the most recent financial accounts (May 2018 - April 2019), only 8 people have been involved at the operation of the company, since the remaining 4 were employed after this reference period, hence their salary costs in not included in the above mentioned amount.Declared lobby clients
Client Name Amount European Commission 200,000€ - 299,999€ -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
Cyberlens’ work relates with various economic sectors, such as telecommunications, automotive, healthcare, energy and robotics, where the company is actively involved in the implementation of flagship projects, in cooperation with reputable research institutions and market leaders of the respective industries.
The most significant projects implemented by the company are the following:
- Artificial Intelligence based cybersecurity for connected and automated vehicles – CARAMEL: CARAMEL’s goal is to proactively address modern vehicle cybersecurity challenges applying advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques, and also to continuously seek methods to mitigate associated safety risks.
- SDN - microgrid reSilient Electrical eNergy SystEm – SDN-microSENSE: SDN-microSENSE aims at providing and demonstrating a secure, resilient to cyber attacks, privacy-enabled and protected against data breaches solution for centralised Electrical Power and Energy Systems (EPES). Adopting an SDN-based technology, SDN-microSENSE will develop a three-layer security architecture by deploying and implementing risk assessment processes, self-healing capabilities, large-scale distributed detection and prevention mechanisms, as well as an overlay privacy protection framework.
- Fighting Crime and TerroRism with an IoT-enabled Autonomous Platform based on an Ecosystem of Advanced IntelligEnce, Operations, and InveStigation Technologies – CREST: CREST is a 3-year pioneer effort, aiming at equipping Law Enforcement Agencies with an integrated tool, which will allow them to adapt to the latest challenges on threat detection and assessment, surveillance, distributed command and control of law enforcement missions, as well as sharing of information and exchange of digital evidence.
- A cyberSecurity Platform for vIrtualiseD 5G cybEr Range services – SPIDER: SPIDER delivers an innovative Cyber Range as a Service platform that extends and combines the capabilities of existing telecommunication testbeds and cyber ranges into a unified facility for: (i) testing new security technologies; (ii) training modern cyber defenders in near real-world conditions; and (iii) supporting organisations and relevant stakeholders in making optimal cybersecurity investment decisions.
- seCUre and pRivate hEalth data eXchange – CUREX: CUREX addresses comprehensively the protection of the confidentiality and integrity of health data by producing a novel, flexible and scalable situational awareness-oriented platform. It allows a healthcare provider to assess the realistic cybersecurity and privacy risks they are exposed to and suggest mathematically optimal strategies for addressing these risks with safeguards tailored specifically for each business case and application.
- 5G for Connected and Automated Road Mobility in the European UnioN – 5G CARMEN: 5G-CARMEN addresses these challenges harnessing the concept of “Mobility Corridors”, committing to achieve world-wide impact by conducting extensive trials across an important corridor, from Bologna to Munich, across three countries.
- Embedded Network Services for 5G Experiences – 5G ESSENCE: 5G ESSENCE addresses the paradigms of Edge Cloud computing and Small Cell as a Service to provide a highly flexible and scalable platform, able to support new business models and revenue streams by creating a neutral host market and reducing operational costs by providing new opportunities for ownership, deployment, operation and amortisation.
- autonomous swarm of heterogeneous RObots for BORDER surveillance – ROBORDER: ROBORDER develops a fully-functional autonomous border surveillance system with unmanned mobile robots including aerial, water surface, underwater and ground vehicles, capable of functioning both as standalone and in swarms, which will incorporate multimodal sensors as part of an interoperable network.Other activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
None declared
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