Versatile Intelligent aGents for Interconnected Ledgers and Autonomous Next-gen Cybersecurity Ecosystems

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The main goal of VIGILANCE is to lower the effort and cost for cybersecurity vendors and Critical Infrastructure (CI) operators to establish, deploy and operate intelligent cyber-defence strategies based on ZTA architectures, which will be characterized by a considerable degree of autonomy and scalability. VIGILANCE will enable the development of autonomous and intelligent cybersecurity systems grounded on ZTA principes, that will be able to operate across multiple administrative domains to secure entire digital supply chains of interconnected CIs in different industrial sectors. The project will revolutionise the cybersecurity landscape by delivering a highly innovative, scalable, incremental, integrated, and operational 5-layer platform that leverages breakthroughs in next-generation digital technologies including Adversarial Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI (GenAI), Blockchain and Quantum computing. At its core, the platform ensures end-to-end cybersecurity governance by transforming fragmented insights into accessible, actionable, and proactive CTI, empowering organisations to collectively anticipate, mitigate, and neutralise threats before they materialise and escalate. To this end, VIGILANCE will enhance continuous verification, real-time anomaly detection, and adaptive risk and vulnerability assessment, resulting to the transformation of the cybersecurity approaches from a reactive defence model to a proactive, self-sustaining, and scalable security ecosystem. This versatile approach seeks to strength defences across interconnected and complex supply chains, CIs, and multi-party environments, ensuring resilient, intelligent, collaborative, and sovereign cyber protection against both current and emerging threats in cyber-physical systems.