Call for financial support to third parties - Suppliers
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The Call for financial support to third parties targets vendors in the banking sector. Interested applicants can apply for financial support for activities aimed at ensuring the cybersecurity resilience of suppliers in the banking sector to ensure that third-party partners do not pose a significant security risk to banks’ operations. This support will help strengthen the cybersecurity of the supply chain in the banking sector. Activities that qualify include acquisition of cybersecurity tools for ensuring vendors’ cybersecurity and cyber threat detection capacities. More information about the Call can be found on the project website: https://www.erstebank.hr/hr/sigurnost/erste-cyber-guardian and Financiranje potpore trećim stranama (erstebank.hr)
Beneficiary & submission
Application Form (written in Croatian) and supporting documents must be submitted via email cyberguardian@erstebank.hr before the specified deadline of the Call published on the project website: https://www.erstebank.hr/hr/sigurnost/erste-cyber-guardian
All the submitted applications will go through administrative checks to determine eligibility of both the applicant and the application. Eligible applications will undergo expert evaluation, which will assess the content of the proposals according to the set evaluation criteria and scoring mechanisms (Relevance, Impact and Sustainability).
Further information
Erste&Steiermärkische Bank d.d. is one of seven systemically important credit institutions in Croatia and part of the international Erste Group. The project "Erste Cyber Guardian - Security Operation Centre for Erste Bank Croatia (SOC4EBC)", funded by the Digital Europe programme, aims to strengthen the Bank's capabilities to detect and prevent incidents and enhance cybersecurity awareness among individuals and organizations within the Bank's ecosystem.
Under the Call for cascade funding a minimum of 25.000 EUR and a maximum of 30.000 EUR of financial support can be granted to a single project. There is an 80% co-funding rate per project. Total funding available under this Call is 150.000 EUR.