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07/09/2026

ATHENE UP26@it-sa finalists: An interview with Blindsight

Blindsight provides transparency across the entire AI stack – from prompt injection to shadow AI. It was founded by ethical hacking expert Guilherme Santos, who repeatedly discovered the same vulnerabilities in supposedly secure AI systems. The aim: not to ban the use of AI, but to make it secure.

07/09/2026

ATHENE UP26@it-sa Finalists: An interview with SQUR

SQUR is launching with the promise of letting AI agents carry out autonomous hacking and providing proof of every discovery, rather than merely assuming it. Developed in Germany, with data stored within the EU and at a price that is said to be affordable even for small and medium-sized enterprises.

03/09/2026

How AI-Generated Code is becoming more secure from the ground up: A conversation with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mira Mezini about SecureCoder

Although more than 90 percent of software developers use AI-powered programming tools today, a significant proportion of the generated code contains security vulnerabilities. The ATHENE SecureCoder mission project is taking a new approach. Rather than verifying security after the fact, it should be built into AI-assisted code generation from the very beginning. In an interview, project leader Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mira Mezini explains how this will be achieved.

31/08/2026

The new ATHENE Pixi books offer a glimpse into the daily lives of female researchers

Visible role models often play a key part in influencing young people's decision to pursue a degree or career in STEM subjects. With its two new Pixi Knowledge books, ATHENA is providing exactly the kind of role models needed in cybersecurity research.

31/08/2026

ATHENE UP26@it-sa finalists: An interview with Complioty

According to the VDMA, one in four mechanical engineering companies has experienced a cyber security incident in the last two years. Complioty automatically generates software bills of materials and continuously monitors them for vulnerabilities, rather than simply recording them once and then forgetting about them. From December 2027, the Cyber Resilience Act will make precisely this a mandatory requirement for the entire mechanical engineering sector. In this interview, the founders explain why they changed direction whilst the business was still being set up, and why this very decision became their greatest strength.

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