Local institute develops smart software for industrial security

Just about every internet user is wary of malicious software, and as scary as the prospect is for individuals, it is thousands of times worse when such attacks hit industrial installations or organizations that control important infrastructure or possess files and data on citizens.

Now, however, the risk has been reduced, thanks to a new platform which can analyze digital applications and programs to ascertain whether they pose a network security risk.

"This platform is unique to Greece and can process suspicious software, identify it and register it as malware," the head of the Industrial Systems Institute (INBIS), which has developed technologies for protecting infrastructure like electricity grids and management systems for water and traffic, Dimitrios Serpanos, tells Kathimerini.

INBIS is the only institute in Greece that specializes in this kind of...