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ADVANCED VALIDATION AND TESTING ENVIRONMENT FOR ENHANCING THE EU HW AND SW VULNERABILITIES ASSESSMENT AND SECURITY BASED ON INNOVATIVE AI SERVICES

Project description

Securing Europe’s digital future

As cyberthreats grow more sophisticated, many hardware and software manufacturers, especially smaller firms, struggle to meet Europe’s new digital security laws. Nevertheless, it is important that they comply with the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act and other legislation. In this context, the EU-funded ATHENA project is developing a flexible cybersecurity platform tailored to their needs. It will support secure design from the start, streamline actions needed for compliance and certification, and offer powerful tools for vulnerability detection. Developed AI-based services will enhance the ability to continuously assess and protect digital products. By easing the path to secure, regulation-ready technologies, ATHENA will strengthen Europe’s digital defences without leaving smaller players behind.

Objective

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.

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CIBER TIEMPO REAL SISTEMAS S.L.
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€ 653 100,00
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Avda. Amado Granell Mesado 75 12A
46013 Valencia
Spain

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SME

The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.

Yes
Region
Este Comunitat Valenciana Valencia/València
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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