AI-driven, EU-compliant cybersecurity from design to deployment

ATHENA unifies secure virtual testbeds, integrated secure-engineering checks, continuous vulnerability detection, AI-based security services, and an EU compliance framework.

OUR Mission

ATHENA brings rigorous, EU-aligned security into everyday workflows—early in development, continuous in operation, and evidence-ready for conformity and certification.

How? The ATHENA Framework

One framework covering development, testing, operation and compliance.

Secure Virtual Testbeds

Sandboxed, reproducible security testing.

Integrated Secure Engineering

Checks in IDE/CI from day one.

Continuous Vulnerability Detection

Code, deps & configs—24/7.

AI-Driven Security Services

Detection, triage, remediation.

EU Compliance Framework

Evidence & guidance for certification.

Pilots & Use Cases

Six real-world use cases across Spain, Poland and Italy—validated from virtual testbeds to live deployments.

Spain — Smart City & Port

HOPLON platform and Valenciaport CCTV/VTS.

Poland — Robotics & Mobility

Mobile robots and the FREEP app.

Italy — Logistics & C-ITS

WMS + truck queuing and C-ITS stack. Goal: availability, safety, CRA alignment.

Manufacturers

Security-by-design for connected products.

Software vendors

CI/CD checks and continuous assurance.

System integrators

Testbeds and evidence across stacks.

Public administrations

Procurement-ready compliance artefacts.

Critical-infrastructure operators

Resilience for ports, transport, energy.

SMEs

Developer-first tooling, affordable adoption.

Conformity assessment bodies

Structured evidence and reproducible tests.

Who benefits

ATHENA supports organisations across the value chain.

consortium partners

A multidisciplinary European consortium—research, industry, SMEs and end-users—co-designs and validates ATHENA.

News & Insights

ATHENA at BTSym’25 

The ATHENA project is pleased to share that on Thursday, November 27th, it reached an important milestone with the presentation of its first scientific contribution

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Contact the team

Interested in the framework, pilots or collaboration opportunities? Reach out to the ATHENA team.