Description du projet
Un outil de rétro-ingénierie pour contribuer à se protéger des cybermenaces
La cybersécurité constitue l’une des priorités absolues de l’Union européenne (UE). L’UE a déployé de nombreuses mesures visant à stimuler la recherche et l’innovation en vue de renforcer la cyber-résilience et de protéger les infrastructures critiques. Dans ce contexte, le projet rev.ng financé par l’UE, concentrera son attention sur des domaines tels que l’internet des objets (IdO), auxquels les experts en cybersécurité prêtent peu d’attention. Le projet se penchera notamment sur la manière dont les analystes analysent les logiciels dont aucun code source n’est disponible. Il n’existe actuellement pas d’outils de rétro-ingénierie pour réaliser des évaluations de sécurité sur de telles plateformes. Le projet mettra au point un outil visant à révolutionner le domaine de la rétro-ingénierie en aidant les PME qui réalisent des évaluations de sécurité et les grandes sociétés qui mènent des analyses à grande échelle de logiciels, comme Google.
Objectif
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.
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationstelecommunications networksmobile network5G
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of things
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsmobile phones
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer security
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Régime de financement
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinateur
42121 REGGIO EMILIA RE
Italie
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.