A Blueprint for Collaborative Cybersecurity Operations Centres with Capacity for Shared Situational Awareness, Coordinated Response, and Joint Preparedness

Computer Science > Cryptography and Security [Submitted on 8 Aug 2026] A Blueprint for Collaborative Cybersecurity Operations Centres with Capacity for Shared Situational Awareness, Coordinated Response, and Joint Preparedness Konstantinos Fysarakis, Vasileios Mavroeidis, Manos Athanatos, George Spanoudakis, Sotiris Ioannidis With digital technologies now being part of the fabric of our societies, identifying and managing cybersecurity threats becomes imperative. Within the European Union, several initiatives are underway, aiming to motivate, regulate and eventually orchestrate the establishment of capacity and enhancement of situational awareness, incident response, and preparedness capabilities, with an expected emphasis on operators of essential services and state actors entrusted with cybersecurity. In this context, the institution of cooperation and information exchange channels to allow for coordinated cross-border responses to large-scale incidents is particularly prioritised. Motivated by the above, this work presents a conceptual blueprint in support of architecting and establishing interoperable Cyber Security Operations Centres that combine capacity for situational awareness, incident response, and preparedness, also benefiting from the interplay between them, ultimately enhancing national cybersecurity capabilities, cross-border collaboration, and national supervision of their critical sectors, in line with current and upcoming regulatory requirements and the ever-increasing need for national and international cooperation. Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Computers and Society (cs.CY) Cite as: arXiv:2608.08011 [cs.CR]   (or arXiv:2608.08011v1 [cs.CR] for this version)   https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.08011 Focus to learn more Journal reference: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), Osaka, Japan, pp. 2601-2609, 2022 Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData55660.2022.10020736 Focus to learn more Submission history From: Vasileios Mavroeidis Prof. [view email] [v1] Sat, 8 Aug 2026 08:41:37 UTC (1,078 KB) Access Paper: HTML (experimental) view license Current browse context: cs.CR < prev   |   next > new | recent | 2026-08 Change to browse by: cs cs.CY References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Export BibTeX Citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Demos Related Papers About arXivLabs Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)