Research 

Our group’s main research expertise lies in the field of Systems & Hardware Security with publications in all major conferences. Up until now, we have coordinated and participated in numerous FP7 and H2020 funded projects developing innovative security solutions for the protection of computer systems and networks. 

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) refers to the extension and use of the Internet of Things (IoT) applications in industrial sectors. The wide adaptation of IoT broadens the attack surface against the OT sector, as new vulnerabilities arise. This creates the potential for industrial process interruption, manipulation, or espionage. We have participated in numerous H2020 projects providing IoT and OT security solutions for different industrial sectors.

Big data processing is a set of techniques or programming models to access large-scale data to extract useful information for supporting and providing decisions. Our research focuses on the exploitation of high performance processing for Big Data analysis, with the use of commodity hardware like GPGPUs or novel high performance hardware designs tested with the use of FPGAs. 

Data analytics is the science of analyzing raw data in order to make conclusions about the processed data, extracting novel information. We are actively exploiting data analytics along with the use of  Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence in the context of social network analysis, security applications and healthcare applications for health.

Featured Projects

SecOPERA Secure OPen source softwarE and hardwaRe Adaptable framework 

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2023-2025

Joint Cybersecurity Operations Platform

European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA)

2021-2024

Multimodal Extreme Scale Data Analytics for Smart Cities Environments

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2021-2023

PRogrammable INfrastructure for CounterIng Pugnacious Adversaries on a Large Scale 

DARPA

2020-2024

Cyber security cOmpeteNce fOr Research anD Innovation

CONCORDIA is one of four H2020 Cybersecurity Pilots launched to secure Europe's digital economy, infrastructures, society, and democracy.

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2019-2022

(with Prof. Maria Pateraki)

A cyber-security framework to GUArantee Reliability and trust for Digital service chainsSmart environments for person-centered sustainable work and well-being

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2019-2021

Cyber Security Threats and Threat Actors Training - Assurance Driven Multi-layer, end-to-end Simulation and Training 

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2018-2021

Industrial-Driven Big Data as a Self-Service Solution

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2018-2020

Ongoing Projects

CYBERUNITY

Community for Integrating and Opening Cyber Range Infrastructures that Build an Interoperable Cross-Domain and Cross-Sector Cyber Range Federation

Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL)

2024-2027

CONSOLE

Cybersecurity for Resilient Software Development

Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL)

2024-2027



An innovative Virtual Reality based intrusion detection, incident investigation and response approach  

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2023-2026

SecOPERA Secure OPen source softwarE and hardwaRe Adaptable framework 

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2023-2025

Cognitive edge-cloud with serverless computing

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2023-2025

Extreme-scale Urban Mobility Data Analytics as a Service 

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2023-2025

Energy-efficient AI-ready Data Spaces

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2023-2025

European Cybersecurity Community Tender

Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL)

2022-2024

Collaborative, Multi-modal and Agile Professional Cybersecurity Training Program for A Skilled Workforce In the European Digital Single Market and Industries

Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL)

2022-2025


Climate Monitoring and Decision Support Framework for Sand Fly-borne Diseases Detection and Mitigation with COST-benefit and Climate-policy Measures

Horizon Europe

2022-2025

Joint Cybersecurity Operations Platform

European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA)

2021-2024

Bridging the security, privacy, and data protection gap for smaller enterprises in Europe

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2021-2023

 (with Dr. Manolis Lourakis)

FlExible assembLy manufacturIng with human-robot Collaboration and digital twin modEls

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2021-2024

 ENERgy-efficient manufacturing system MANagement

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2021-2023

 Cybersecurity Skills Alliance - A New Vision for Europe

Erasmus+ EU's programme

2020-2024

PRogrammable INfrastructure for CounterIng Pugnacious Adversaries on a Large Scale 

DARPA

2020-2024

Intelligent, distributed, human-centered and trustworthy IoT environments

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2020-2023

A CybEr range tRaining platform for medicAl organisations and systems Security

European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation staff exchange programme (RISE) under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie

2019-2023

Smart Big Data Platform to Offer Evidence-based Personalised Support for Healthy and Independent Living at Home 

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2019-2024

Biologically Inspired Complex Software System Reconstruction at Near Extinction States

European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation staff exchange programme (RISE) under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie

2019-2023

Past Projects

Security Assessments for Networks anD Services in 5G

Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL)

2024-2026



Greek Security Operations Centre for Small and Medium Enterprises

Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL)

2024-2026



A Dynamic Training programme based on Cyber-Ranges Leveraging IT Security, Privacy and Data Protection Culture and Awareness of Critical Information Infrastructures

Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL)

2024-2026



Cybersesurity market assurance and insurance-as-a-service

Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL)

2023-2026



Secure and Safe Multi-Robot Systems

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2021-2023

Multimodal Extreme Scale Data Analytics for Smart Cities Environments

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2021-2023

A Dynamic and Self-Organized Artificial Swarm Intelligence Solution for Security and Privacy Threats in Healthcare ICT Infrastructures

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2020-2023

Certifying the Security and Resilience of Supply Chain Services

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2020-2023

Αrtificial intelligence Supporting CAncer Patients across Europe

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2020-2022

Towards a Sophisticated SIEM Marketplace for Blockchain-based Threat Intelligence and Security-as-a-Service

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2020-2023

A secure Healthcare Environment for Informatics Resilience

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2020-2023

Α COmprehensive cyber-intelligence framework for resilient coLLABorative manufacturing Systems

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2020-2022

Cyber Security Incident Handling, Warning and Response System for the European Critical Infrastructures

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2019-2022

A cyberSecurity Platform for vIrtualiseD 5G cybEr Range services

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2019-2022

 (with Dr. Vangelis Sakkalis)

Protection and privAcy of hospital and health iNfrastructures with smArt Cyber sEcurity and cyber threat toolkit for dAta and people

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2019-2021

(with Prof. Maria Pateraki)

A cyber-security framework to GUArantee Reliability and trust for Digital service chainsSmart environments for person-centered sustainable work and well-being

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2019-2021

Cyber Security Threats and Threat Actors Training - Assurance Driven Multi-layer, end-to-end Simulation and Training.

European Union’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF)

2018-2021

RESilient transport InfraSTructure to extreme events 

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2018-2021

Intelligence-Driven Urban Internet-of-Things Ecosystems for Trustworthy and Circular Smart Cities

European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation staff exchange programme (RISE) under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie

2018-2022

A Framework for Pairing Circular Economy and IoT: IoT as an enabler of the Circular Economy circularity-by-design as an enabler for the IoT

European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation staff exchange programme (RISE) under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie

2018-2022

Cyber security 4.0: protecting the Industrial Internet Of Things.

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2019-2022

A cyber-security framework to GUArantee Reliability and trust for Digital service chains

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2019-2022

Cyber Security Threats and Threat Actors Training - Assurance Driven Multi-layer, end-to-end Simulation and Training 

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2018-2021

Smart End-to-end Massive IoT Interoperability, Connectivity and Security

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2018-2020

Industrial-Driven Big Data as a Self-Service Solution

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2018-2020

CYBER Security InSURancE — A Framework for Liability Based Trust

European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation staff exchange programme (RISE) under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie

2017-2020

A Hardware Platform for Software-driven Functional Metasurfaces

 European Union via the Horizon 2020, Future Emerging Topics call (FETOPEN)

2017-2020

Protecting Small and Medium-sized Enterprises digital technology through and innovative cyber-SECurity framework

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2017-2020

Trans-European and Greek CERTs collaboration project

European Union’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF)

2017-2020

Cybersecurity and privacy dialogue between Europe and Japan

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2017-2019

A Novel Framework for Multi-cloud Services Development, Orchestration and Continuous Management Fostering Cloud Technologies Uptake from Digital SMEs/Startups

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2017-2019

 Enhancing Critical Infrastructure Protection with innovative SECurity framework

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2016-2019

(with Dr. Ioannis Askoxylakis)

Virtual and programmable industrial network prototype deployed in operations Wind park 

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2015-2018

 (with Dr. Iakovos Mavroidis)

Heterogeneous Secure Multi-level Remote Acceleration Service for Low-Power Integrated Systems and Devices

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2015-2017

Secure Hardware-Software Architectures for Robust Computing Systems

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

2015-2017

GANDALF

A GPU-based Architecture for Network and Data Level Flows

General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Program “Αριστεία ΙΙ”, Excellence Award, Investigator Driven Research

2014-2015

Supporting European Union and Southeast Asia ICT strategic partnership and policy dialogue: Connecting ICT EU-SEA Research, Development and Innovation Knowledge Network

European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme 

2013-2016

Nippon-European Cyberdefense-Oriented Multilayer threat Analysis

Strategic International Collaborative R&D Promotion Project of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication, Japan, and European Union Seventh Framework Programme

2013-2016

 OPerational Trustworthiness Enabling Technologies

European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme 

2012-2015

Forensics Tools Against Illegal Use of the Internet

Prevention of and Fight against Crime Programme of the European Union

2011-2014

TRACER

 Vulnerability Detection and Reinforcement of Security in Legacy Applications and Systems

 General Secretariat for Research and Technology

2011-2014

 EUINCOOP - Fostering Cooperation in Computing Systems

European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme 

2011-2013

(with Prof. Evangelos Markatos)

 A European Network of Excellence in Managing Threats and Vulnerabilities in the Future Internet: Europe for the World 

European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme 

2010-2014

(with Prof. Evangelos Markatos)

Real-time Malicious Code Identification

Prevention, Preparedness and Consequence Management of Terrorism and other Security-related Risks European Union’s Programme

2010-2012


Managing Emerging Threats in ICT Infrastructure

European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme 

2008-2010

Privacy Architectures for System Services

European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme-PEOPLE

2008-2012

People

Associate Professor Technical University of Crete / Affiliated Researcher FORTH

Aggeliki Tsioliaridou

Postdoctoral Researcher

George Hatzivasilis

Postdoctoral Researcher

Postdoctoral Researcher

Postdoctoral Researcher

Gregory Chrysos

Postdoctoral Researcher


Michalis Diamantaris

Postdoctoral Researcher

Postdoctoral Researcher

Georgios Christou

Postdoctoral Researcher

PhD Candidate

PhD Candidate

Charalambos Ioannis Mitropoulos

PhD Candidate

PhD Candidate

Research Associate, PhD Candidate 

PhD Candidate

Thomas Kyriakakis

MSc Student

Petros Portokalakis 

MSc Student

Giannis Morianos

MSc Student

Andreas Theofanous

MSc Student

Giannis Arkalakis

MSc Student

MSc Student

MSc Student

Argyro Palli

Undergraduate Student

Technical Project Manager

Project Manager

Project Manager Assistant

Eleni Pateraki

Project Manager Assistant

Mairy Spyridaki

Project Manager Assistant

 R&D Engineer

R&D Engineer

Eftychia Lakka

R&D Engineer

R&D Engineer

Grigoris Ntousakis

 R&D Engineer

Manos Papoutsakis

R&D Engineer

Charalabos Savvakos

R&D Engineer 


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Contact

Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas

Institute of Computer Science

 Nikolaou Plastira 100

 70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

 Tel: +30 2810 391412

Technical University of Crete

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering 

Akrotiri Campus

 73100 Chania, Crete, Greece

Tel: +30 28210 37344