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This editorial article introduces the reader to the Third International Scientific Conference "Digital Transformation, Cyber Security and Resilience," DIGILIENCE 2021, and summarises the results from four of its sessions: AI-driven Cybersecu-rity Solutions; Organisational and Ethical Considerations in Providing Cybersecu-rity; Cyber Ranges for Innovative Education & Training; and Advanced ICT Solutions with Military Applications.
Keywords: digital transformation, artificial intelligence, intrusion detection, collaborative network organisation, human factors, situational awareness, cybersecurity ethics, cyber range, ECHO project
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Rapid technological developments provide numerous opportunities to enhance performance and create new security and defence capabilities. To utilise their potential, organisations need to innovate and transform while paying due attention to their protection against attacks from cyberspace and overall resilience. To reflect on these developments, a group of senior researchers with policy-making experience decided in 2018 to launch a series of international scientific conferences under the title "Digital Transformation, Cyber Security and Resilience" (DIGILIENCE). Three leading Bulgarian research institutions- the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Bulgarian Defence Institute, and the European Software Institute-Center Eastern Europe-joined their forces in the pursuit of the new endeavour. We aimed to establish DIGILEINCE as an internationally recognised scientific conference and as a platform bringing together academics, senior policy-makers, and practitioners to present and discuss current and future requirements, lessons from the experience, novel ideas, and forthcoming innovative solutions.
The first conference, DIGILIENCE 2019, was a resounding success. It took place in the Central Military Club in Sofia, 2-4 October 2019 and brought together over 100 participants and an agenda with 55 presentations. Twenty-eight of the papers were published in volume 43 of this journal 1 prior to the conference, while 32 of the presented papers appeared in a dedicated Springer volume.2
The second conference, DIGILIENCE 2020, was hosted by the Nikola Vaptsa-rov Naval Academy in Varna, Bulgaria. Fifty of the accepted papers were published in two volumes of Information & Security: An International Journal. Volume 46 focused on ICT governance...