ATHENE National Research Center For Applied Cybersecurity

ATHENE is the largest research center for cybersecurity and privacy in Europe, conducting application-oriented top-level research for the benefit of the economy, society and the state.

ATHENE develops security solutions, regularly advises industry and public administration and supports company founders and start-ups. In doing so, the knowledge gained from the basic research carried out at universities is incorporated into further application-oriented research. With its research and development work, ATHENE covers a very wide range of expertise relevant to various technologies and application areas, such as the security of systems, software, applications, processes, hardware, data or Internet infrastructures. The research centre works in an agile and efficient manner, enabling it to respond quickly to new challenges and changing threat situations.

ATHENE is a research center of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.