ATHENA

Advanced Validation and Testing Environment for Enhancing the EU HW and SW Vulnerabilities Assessment and Security based on Innovative AI Services
Project ID
Funding Organization:
Funding Programme:
HORIZON-CL3-2024-CS-01-01
Funding Instrument:
Innovation Action
Start Date:
01/10/2025
Duration:
36 months
Total Budget:
5,190,153 EUR
ITI Budget:
490,322 EUR
Scientific Responsible:

ATHENA will bring a flexible and scalable Cyber-security solution for being used by SW&HW manufacturers, including microenterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), organizations CISOs and cyber-security personnel. This solution will allow the above-mentioned stakeholders to test, validate and ensuring their SW&HW products compliance with the new EU mandatory security requirements (CRA) and its readiness for certification following the schemes proposed by the EU Cyber-security Act Certification Framework (CACF). In addition, this solution will include a security engineering dedicated tool to guarantee the reliability of new SW&HW from the early development phases and its compliance with both, the EU mandatory essential requirements for the security of products with digital elements stated in the new EU harmonised legislation (e.g. Cyber Resilient Act (CRA), NIS2, Data Act ) and the stakeholders own security needs. Furthermore, several innovative security services based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) along with a cutting-edge automatic vulnerabilities detection and assessment toolset will be developed and integrated in the ATHENA solution for ensuring the continuous SW&HW products security assessment and protection against complex cyber threats.

Consortium

CIBER TIEMPO REAL SISTEMAS S.L. (CiberTRS), Spain
EREVNITIKO PANEPISTIMIAKO INSTITOUTO SYSTIMATON EPIKOINONION KAI YPOLOGISTON (ICCS), Greece
NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU (NTNU), Norway
CYBERSOCIAL LAB SRL IMPRESA SOCIALE (CSL), Italy
ETRA INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO SA (ETRA I+D), Spain
ITTI SP ZOO (ITTI Sp. z o.o.), Poland
FUNDACION DE LA COMUNIDAD VALENCIANA PARA LA INVESTIGACION, PROMOCION Y ESTUDIOS COMERCIALES DE VALENCIAPORT (VPF), Spain
CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS (CERTH), Greece
FAV INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGIES COOP. V. (FAVIT), Spain
SIEC BADAWCZA LUKASIEWICZ – PRZEMYSLOWY INSTYTUT AUTOMATYKI I POMIAROW PIAP (PIAP), Poland
SOUTH ENGINEERING SRL (SOUTH), Italy
CATONE LOGISTICA S.R.L. (CATONE), Italy

Contact

Dr. Dionysios Kehagias
(Scientific Responsible)
Building A - Office 2.14

Information Technologies Institute
Centre of Research & Technology - Hellas
6th km Harilaou - Thermis, 57001, Thermi - Thessaloniki
Tel.: +30 2311 257716
Fax: +30 2310 474128
Email: diok@iti.gr