Project description
Reverse engineering tool to help protect against cyber threats
Cyber security is a top priority for the European Union. A lot is being done to boost research and innovation to enhance cyber resilience and protect critical infrastructure. In this context, the EU-funded rev.ng project will focus on areas such as the Internet of Things (IoT) which receive little attention by cyber security experts. Specifically, the project will investigate how analysts analyse software with no available source code. Currently, there are no reverse engineering tools to perform security assessments on such platforms. The project will develop a tool aimed at revolutionising the reverse engineering field by assisting SMEs performing security assessments and large corporations performing large-scale analysis of software such as Google.
Objective
Cyberattacks are one of the most challenging threats modern societies have to face.
In fact, along with the growth of IT infrastructure, threats against them have been raising too.
While a lot is being done, certain environments, in particular in the IoT area, are receiving little attention by cybersecurity experts.
One of the key reasons for this is the almost total lack of tools to perform security assessments on them.
Specifically, these areas lack reverse engineering tools, which allow analysts to analyze software for which the source code is not available.
The absence of reverse engineering tools makes it extremely hard, if not impossible, to perform security assessments on such platforms.
The reason for this is the dominance of the market leader (turnover 14000000+ EUR in 2017, EBITDA of 13000000+), which has little incentive to innovate in market niches which would justify the investment.
In this proposal, we aim to bring to commercial maturity rev.ng a tool developed by our company.
rev.ng is the result of a multi-year research effort, with the aim of being able to handle a diverse set of platforms in a unified way.
This approach is radically revolutionary in the reverse engineering field and allows us to target market niches which would not be profitable to our competitors.
Our product has already been validated both by SMEs performing security assessments and large corporations performing large scale analysis of software such as Google.
The goal of this proposal is getting the resources to refine some critical aspects of the feasibility study we already performed, that will lead us to devise the best path to transform our small company, currently mainly focused on consulting, into a scalable company developing a state-of-the-art reverse engineering product.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering information engineering telecommunications telecommunications networks mobile network 5G
- natural sciences computer and information sciences internet internet of things
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering information engineering telecommunications mobile phones
- natural sciences computer and information sciences computer security
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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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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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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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Net EU financial contribution. The sum of money that the participant receives, deducted by the EU contribution to its linked third party. It considers the distribution of the EU financial contribution between direct beneficiaries of the project and other types of participants, like third-party participants.
42121 REGGIO EMILIA RE
Italy
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
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