The main objectives of the project are:

• Study and assess the current status of SCADA deployment (with an accent on Italy and Croatia);
• Evidentiating similarities and dissimilarities and assessing priorities in future SCADA testbed architecture;
• Proposing a novel architecture for SCADA component interaction modeling, based on cooperative agent negotiation, to bridge the usefulness of the software-as-a-service model with additional reliability and security;
• Formally and empirically prove the improvements in security, safety and resilience of this architecture over the ones commonly used
• Developing a common understanding of industrial needs and requirements regarding the security of control systems and the related standardization, accompanied by a raising awareness programme reaching all end-users.
• Identifying and disseminating best practice, possibly in a joint endeavor between manufacturers and end users, resulting in a joint capability and technology taxonomy of security solutions.
• Stimulating convergence of current standardization efforts. Liaising with international efforts and especially with the US Process Control Forum.
• Development and deployment of SCADA testbed platform for analysis of emergent phenomena in power systems.