What We Do

We help countries and sectors reduce cyber risk in essential services such as finance, energy, health, and telecommunications. Based at Tel Aviv University, we combine research with practical field work, helping decision-makers understand sector-wide risks and turn findings into realistic improvement plans.

We study cyber resilience: how everyday digital systems (payments at a bank, records in a hospital, controls on a plant floor, equipment on the power grid) keep serving people when something breaks, overloads, or is attacked.

Some of that is robustness: design and redundancy so critical functions keep working and stay available when components fail, overload, or stay under sustained pressure. The rest unfolds before and after an incident: watching for and tracking threats, tightening prevention where risk rises, and when something still gets through, detecting it early, limiting how far harm spreads across linked services, and restoring trusted normal operations.

These systems are distributed and strongly interdependent. We use Cyber Capability Maturity Models to spot strengths and gaps, including how well teams share information and help each other when trouble spreads.

Our approach

We assess cyber resilience at sector level across operators, regulators, suppliers, and national institutions. Under stress, harm often spreads along dependencies and information gaps, so we treat the sector as one connected system.

Our working framework is PROGRESS, a sector-level capability maturity model that turns assessments into prioritized improvement plans.

Who we help

  • Governments and public authorities responsible for critical sectors
  • Regulators and infrastructure operators
  • Development institutions and international partners
  • Research and policy communities working on cyber resilience

Research Highlights

Global impact

Applied examples across sectors and countries.

Publications & Resources

Peer-reviewed outputs and reference documents.

Conferences & Trainings

Agendas, participants, and visual records.

For curious readers

What PROGRESS Is

Concept, scope, and when the method applies.

PROGRESS Methodology

Process steps, matrices, and operational dimensions.

CIP Navigator

Interactive navigation for critical infrastructure protection workflows.

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