Ethiack Portal - Project File

ETHIACK PORTAL
AI-powered Ethical Hacking Automation Platform

 

Challenge

Increasing technological progress has led to an accelerated digital transformation of organizations, which makes digital information systems dynamic, more complex and increasingly exposed. Organizations depend on a growing number of interconnected and constantly updated technologies, often resulting in complete ignorance of their digital infrastructure and assets (e.g. components such as applications, databases, servers, devices, accounts or any other that could be exploited). On the other hand, current offerings in the cybersecurity market are mostly defensive and reactive options, more focused on regulatory compliance and incident management than on prevention. Since the root of cybercrime is the exploitation of vulnerabilities, their identification and rapid mitigation is key to preventing it.


Solution / Main Objective

The main objective of this project is to deepen the research and development of Ethiack Portal, a platform that will combine automatic and manual ethical hacking with Artificial Intelligence to enable the continuous and accurate identification of vulnerabilities with a high level of automation and autonomy in different types of digital assets and infrastructures.


Objectives, Activities and Expected/Achieved Results

Specific expected objectives:
  • Complete recognition, mapping and intelligent management of digital assets.
  • Accurate, efficient and fast analysis of most impactful vulnerabilities through optimized automatic ethical hacking.
  • Autonomous generation of automatic ethical hacking modules supported by NLP and LLMs.
  • Robustness of AI used for the generation of ethical hacking modules.

Project Logo

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Project Reference - CENTRO2030-FEDER-00565200

Financing

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Intervention Region - National

Total Investment - 742.160,56

IPN Investment - 291.404,00

Total Eligible - 742.160,56

IPN Eligible - 291.404,00

EU Financial Support - Total - 582.373,17

EU Financial Support – IPN - 247.693,40

Duration - 36 Months

Start Date - 2023-03-01

End Date - 2026-02-14

Approval Date - 2024-09-09

Consortium - Ethiack, Lda & Instituto Pedro Nunes

Keywords - Cybersecurity; Ethical Hacking; Artificial Intelligence; LLMs