The FORTIKA project concluded successfully after three years of implementation. During its lifetime the project developed in due time all anticipated deliverables (83 in total). Also the project achieved all defined Milestones (14 in total)
The project addressed the legal and ethical aspects that are relevant to its targets. The proposed business models evaluated thoroughly in terms of their legal compliance. Further, following the reviewer’s and PO’s suggestions, the project developed a methodology for a systematic translation of legal and ethical requirements into technical requirements and seamlessly incorporating them into FORTIKA products.
The main technical outcome of the project is the development of next generation cybersecurity services powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) for threat identification and mitigation. The new services are downloadable from the FORTIKA Marketplace. They deployed in a hardware-accelerated Gateway device installed at the SME premises, thus demonstrating the Edge Acceleration paradigm.
The project developed the FORTIKA marketplace of cybersecurity products, which accommodates solutions tailored for each enterprise. The Marketplace allow to search, select and download cybersecurity tools (bundles) that are deployed to the hardware-accelerated Gateway. The Marketplace offers also counter-parts of the services that run on the cloud.
The FORTIKA technology was evaluated in the frame of five pilots through five major types of SMEs, during the last year of the project.
A complete dissemination strategy was planned and realized during the project. This included a brochure issued in 6 languages, 6 newsletters and a website continuously updated. Further, we had considerable presence in social media. Several clustering events were organized with other projects. Finally, we developed 4 white papers intended for the end user societies. A total of 21 FORTIKA videos were developed. We published 49 user stories at the website .
The project developed and evaluated detailed business models for the exploitation of the results. A total of 11 independent exploitable asses resulted as outcomes of FORTIKA. Further, the consortium identified five differentiated potential FORTIKA products, which are combinations of the independent assets ranging from the Gateway alone to the holistic FORTIKA solution. The consortium elaborated and agreed on the IPR shares for all results.
Following a suggestion of the PO we elaborated on specific topics related to post project exploitation of the created assets. The results of this open discussion presented during the final review. Further, following the recommendations of the reviewers we prepared and submitted an updated and lean business plan for the exploitation of the basic FORTIKA product during the first post-project year. In the same framework, we elaborated and reported in the final management report our intentions on the patenting procedures to implement in post-project time.
