UBITECH today confirmed its role as a technical partner in REINFORCE, a newly launched action funded under the European Union’s Digital Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101299739), aimed at reinforcing cybersecurity preparedness and resilience across the European healthcare sector. The project was formally launched on 9 July 2026 during an online kick-off meeting hosted by ASSIST SOFTWARE SRL, the project’s coordinating partner, bringing together the consortium for the first time to align on the project’s scientific, technical, and operational roadmap. REINFORCE will run for 36 months. Healthcare organisations across Europe face an intensifying wave of cyberattacks that threaten patient safety, data confidentiality, and the continuity of critical care services. REINFORCE responds to this challenge by delivering an AI-driven ecosystem that strengthens healthcare providers’ ability to prevent, detect, and respond to sophisticated cyber threats. The project’s vision is a cyber-secure healthcare environment in which organisations remain resilient to evolving risks and can guarantee the uninterrupted delivery of critical services to patients and clinicians alike.
To achieve this, REINFORCE is structured around four core pillars, each validated in real-world healthcare environments: systematic vulnerability assessment and security requirements mapping, the implementation of a Secure-by-Design framework, AI-enabled real-time incident detection and response, and comprehensive cybersecurity training and awareness programmes for healthcare staff. These pillars are underpinned by advanced encryption, zero-trust architectures, and AI/ML-based technologies, complemented by training curricula tailored to the diverse roles found across the healthcare workforce. Operationally, the REINFORCE architecture is built around two integrated components, coordinated by a Central Threat Intelligence Hub that curates and distributes actionable threat intelligence: an AI-Enhanced Security Operations Centre (SOC) and a Testing, Training and Awareness Platform.
Within the REINFORCE consortium, UBITECH contributes technical leadership across several of the project’s most demanding work areas. UBITECH is responsible for the continuous monitoring of the project’s research, data, and technological evolution, tracking the progress of technological developments, identifying and troubleshooting technical issues as they arise, and maintaining ongoing assessment of the project’s technical status and progress. UBITECH will also produce the project’s Data Management Plan (DMP) and ensure full compliance with GDPR throughout the project lifecycle.
UBITECH is further tasked with defining REINFORCE’s overall architecture in high-level building blocks, translating the consortium’s functional requirements into a concrete technical blueprint for the REINFORCE ecosystem. This includes describing the workflows required to implement the foreseen solution and detailing how its main components are connected and interact with one another, including the technical specification of the underlying APIs.
A central part of UBITECH’s contribution is the establishment of a comprehensive threat intelligence infrastructure. This encompasses specialised healthcare threat feeds, dark web monitoring powered by UBITECH’s proprietary MEDUSA platform to identify emerging threats and compromised data such as leaked credentials, and a secure collaborative information-sharing hub that enables healthcare providers to exchange anonymised incident data, mitigation strategies, and response playbooks across organisational and national boundaries. UBITECH will also ensure connectivity and interoperability with EU-backed threat-sharing initiatives, including the European Cybersecurity Alert System and national CERT/CSIRT networks, using standardised formats such as STIX/TAXII and MISP.
Building on this foundation, UBITECH will combine detection, threat intelligence, and orchestration functions into a unified AI-enhanced SOC platform enriched with integrated LLM-based features. UBITECH additionally coordinates the integration of all REINFORCE cybersecurity solutions, spanning assessment frameworks, Secure-by-Design architectures, the AI-enhanced SOC, and the training platforms, ensuring their operational readiness ahead of full-scale deployment. This involves conducting pre-deployment compatibility assessments against existing systems within hospital IT infrastructures, developing site-specific integration plans that address technical, organisational, and regulatory requirements, performing proof-of-concept installations, and delivering documentation to support deployment procedures.
UBITECH’s technical contributions to REINFORCE are led by its Computing Systems & Software Engineering (CSE) Research Group, which specialises in secure system architectures, AI-driven security operations, and large-scale research and innovation engineering across European-funded programmes.
“Healthcare is one of the sectors where cybersecurity failures translate directly into patient risk, which makes resilience a matter of safety, not just compliance. Through REINFORCE, our Computing Systems & Software Engineering team is bringing together real-time AI-driven detection, cross-border threat intelligence, and a rigorous Secure-by-Design methodology to give healthcare providers the tools they need to defend increasingly complex digital environments. We are proud to work alongside ASSIST SOFTWARE and the wider consortium to turn this vision into an operational reality across European hospitals,” saidGiannis Ledakis, Head of Computing Systems & Software Engineering, UBITECH
