Project description
The first European security testing solution
Data breaches represent a high risk for companies. To prevent breaches, companies are investing billions of euros. However, as security breaches increase, they reveal that existing security testing is limited and slow. Today, two United States companies lead the market in Europe. The EU-funded Intigriti project presents an innovative platform that represents a new approach to security testing. Intigriti is a crowdsourced security platform that connects security researchers (ethical hackers) and companies wanting to prevent security breaches. The platform is a managed service where reports submitted by researchers are validated before being delivered to companies. The SME instrument funding is crucial for the platform, the first European security testing solution.
Objective
As data breaches are costly, companies spend billions to prevent them. Nevertheless, security breaches are increasing over the years. In other words, current security testing is limited as this is based on snapshots, influenced by the human factor and slow.
Our intigriti platform represents a new approach to security testing: as opposed to the current manual ad-hoc testing, we are running a crowdsourced security platform where security researchers (ethical hackers) and companies wanting to prevent security breaches meet. We offer intigriti as a managed service where reports submitted by researchers are validated by use before they are forwarded to companies. On the demand-side, companies pay a monthly fee to display descriptions on what can be tested. When a report is valid, they pay a reward (bounty) to the researcher who submitted and we withhold a reward (bounty fee).
We founded intigriti in August 2016 and launched the first intigriti version (i.e. gritti) in March 2017. Within a few months, we generated revenues of €460,000 from companies headquartered in Belgium with a global presence. Several investors have already spotted us and invested almost one million euros together with the founder who owns the majority share of the company.
The total market for security testing is in the 10-digit range and our immediate target market is over €200 million. Our main competition are two US companies who we can keep at bay by being the first to market in Europe, which makes the SME instrument funding crucial for us.
With intigriti entering all of Europe, citizens will benefit from much better data security and a minimized risk of identity theft as the intigriti ethical hackers help European companies stay one step ahead of malicious outsiders. In other words, before any citizens can get exposed to risks, our intigriti researchers have already found the gap and the company has already fixed it.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- natural sciences computer and information sciences computer security data protection
- social sciences psychology ergonomics
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Programme(s)
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
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H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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9300 Aalst
Belgium
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
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