ATHENA is a Horizon Europe project delivering a holistic, AI-driven cybersecurity framework to help EU organisations build, test and certify trustworthy software and hardware.
Bring rigorous, EU-aligned security into everyday workflows—early in development, continuous in operation, and evidence-ready for conformity and certification.
Plugs into developer tools and lab environments for practical security‑by‑design.
Vulnerability detection and guided remediation across code, binaries and configs.
Control mapping, test plans and evidence for EU conformity and certification.
IDE/CI/CD integrations to shift security left without slowing teams down.
One framework that covers development, testing, operation and compliance.
Sandboxed, reproducible environments for realistic security testing.
Checks embedded in IDE/CI from day one.
Ongoing discovery and tracking across the stack
Detection, triage and remediation assistance.
Evidence and guidance for certification readiness.
Deliver and validate an end‑to‑end cybersecurity framework that enables testing, auditing, and continuous assurance—while preparing for EU compliance and certification.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme under grant agreement No 101225583 (ATHENA). Views and opinions expressed are those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the granting authority. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
