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Started in February 2013 and ended in July 2015, the European Project Advance Cyber ​​Defence Centre (ACDC) created a community of stakeholders for countering spreading of botnets.

ACDC collected tools to mitigate botnet threats and addressed both end users and network operators realizing

  1. the so-called Centralized Clearing House (CCH), a centralized database of incidents regularly fed with new data by network sensors scattered throughout Europe
  2. a netowork of National Support Centers (NSCs), providing support in each nation for the Internet users in order to mitigate botnet infections

Run by 28 partners from 14 countries, ACDC has delivered a community still active and committed in countering botnets, open to other stakeholders from public authorities, industry and academia in the Member States.



Map of National Support Centres in Europe. NSC available: Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Luxemburg, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain. NSC planned: Holland, Ireland. Other ACDC countries: Austria, UK, Slovenia.



ACDC is included in The National Plan for Cyberspace Protection and ICT Security at point 4.3 "EU projects".

Online resources

  • ACDC Project: The European web site
  • Other National Support Centres (pages in the national languages; Belgian, Luxemburguese, Portuguese and Romanian websites also in English):

     Belgium   Bulgaria 
     Croatia   France 
     Germany   Italy 
     Luxemburg   Portugal 
     Romania   Spain 
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