Security Assurance-driven AI-based Security Services for Trustworthy Security Engineering from Left-to-Rightcore
SECASSURED · Horizon Europe grant · 2025-12-01–2028-11-30
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About the data
Source: CORDIS (official EU open data), Horizon Europe. Framework HORIZON · call HORIZON-CL3-2024-CS-01 · scheme HORIZON-IA · topic HORIZON-CL3-2024-CS-01-01. CORDIS record →
Objective
The more complex and critical that many systems becoming nowadays, the more they are developed by integrating different (sub-)components, even third-party hardware/software components. With the pressure of time to market, and the ever-evolving security threats, getting more complicated than ever with the breakthroughs in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), how to enable more secure development and integrations of critical systems to be assured for security? These huge challenges must be addressed to make “secure services, processes and products, as well as to robust digital infrastructures capable to resist and counter cyber-attacks and hybrid threats” as called for in the EC’s Strategic Plan 2021-2024. Addressing exactly these challenges, the overall objective of SECASSURED is to deliver innovative security engineering solutions with (AI-based) security services to achieve novel holistic assurance-driven security engineering, capable of (1) increasing software, hardware and supply chain security by identifying cybersecurity and regulatory risks while integrating (both commercial and open-source) components, even third party ones, (2) providing virtual, secure environments for the automated assessment of system components including AI components and their secure integration, and (3) continuous assurance-driven security engineering with a holistic toolbox of (AI-based) security services. It paves the way of secure continuous system integration of (third-party) components, including AI components, across the computing continuum, and implements EC's evolving security and privacy regulations, as well as the strategy of human-centric AI.
Beneficiaries (19)
| Organisation | Country | Role | EC contribution | SME |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SINTEF AS | NO | coordinator | €1,076,625 | |
| FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV | DE | participant | €704,900 | |
| FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION | ES | participant | €658,175 | |
| MONTIMAGE EURL | FR | participant | €396,002 | Yes |
| TELLU AS | NO | participant | €361,375 | Yes |
| AALTO KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR | FI | participant | €359,538 | |
| NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU | NO | participant | €339,562 | |
| ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS | EL | participant | €324,790 | |
| DIMOSIA EPICHEIRISI ILEKTRISMOU ANONYMI ETAIREIA | EL | participant | €275,625 | |
| ORANGE ROMANIA SA | RO | participant | €252,000 | |
| INDUSTRIA DE TURBO PROPULSORES SA,SOCIEDAD UNIPERSONAL | ES | participant | €203,438 | |
| IDEKO S COOP | ES | participant | €203,125 | |
| SAFEPAY SYSTEMS SZOLGALTATO ES KERESKEDELMI KFT | HU | participant | €172,244 | Yes |
| THE URBAN INSTITUTE MAGYARORSZAG ZARTKORUEN MUKODO RT | HU | participant | €168,350 | Yes |
| ASSIST SOFTWARE SRL | RO | participant | €160,956 | Yes |
| SAVVY DATA SYSTEMS SL | ES | participant | €127,750 | Yes |
| AROBS Transilvania Software S.A. | RO | participant | €74,812 | |
| K3Y | BG | participant | €66,500 | Yes |
| ONBT BILISIM TEKNOLOJILERI ANONIM SIRKETI | TR | participant | €58,188 | Yes |
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