UBITECH proudly announces its participation as technical coordinator in the newly launched EU-funded Digital Europe Action LLM4CIP (LLM-Powered Cybersecurity Preparedness and Risk Mitigation for Critical Infrastructure Protection), which officially kicked off with a consortium meeting hosted by project coordinator ASSIST SOFTWARE SRL on January 27, 2026, in Suceava, Romania. Spanning from January 2026 to December 2028 under Grant Agreement Nr 101249717, LLM4CIP brings together leading organizations committed to transforming cybersecurity capabilities for essential services and critical infrastructures across Europe. The LLM4CIP project addresses significant gaps in cybersecurity frameworks highlighted by the NIS2 Directive by providing a transformative, AI-driven approach to cybersecurity preparedness. The envisioned LLM4CIP platform will empower end-user organisations to simulate, detect, analyse, and mitigate cyber risks with unprecedented precision and accessibility.
By serving as a digital assistant for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), LLMs will enable even non-cybersecurity experts, such as system administrators, to effectively manage and resolve complex security incidents. This democratisation of cybersecurity capabilities allows a broader range of personnel to contribute to security efforts and reduces dependency on scarce cybersecurity experts, thus lowering barriers to adopting security solutions.
UBITECH participates through its Computing Systems & Software Engineering (CSE) Research Group, contributing comprehensive technical expertise across multiple dimensions of the project. As technical coordinator, UBITECH is responsible for monitoring research, data and technological evolution, tracking the progress of technological developments, identifying and troubleshooting technical problems, and continuously assessing technical status and progress throughout the three-year initiative.
As part of its technical coordination duties, UBITECH will analyse commercially available cybersecurity and cyber-range solutions to establish business validations and benchmarking KPIs. The company will explore cyber-defence capabilities by identifying threats, attacks, weaknesses and vulnerabilities in stakeholders’ critical infrastructures across different NIS2 essential sectors, including Networks, Applications, Virtualisation solutions, Cloud solutions, Industrial Control systems, and IoT components to identify vulnerabilities and build penetration testing scenarios.
UBITECH’s technical contributions focus on delivering tools that enable third parties to proactively address cybersecurity challenges through automated tasks via LLM-based functionalities. Central to this effort is the implementation of the Agentic AI-fuelled Orchestrator that will facilitate the deployment, chaining and execution of offered tools and services, automating the execution of supported remediation actions.
The company will develop two specialized chatbots that exemplify the democratization of cybersecurity expertise. The first is a GenAI-based digital cybersecurity consultant fueled with end-user risk assessments and all NIS2-related documentation and legislation to provide guidelines, tips, and walkthroughs on NIS2 adoption and compliance based on the organization’s type, status, and maturity. This consultant will also explain the results and outputs of invoked tools and services, including next steps and remediation actions. The second chatbot is a Digital Cybersecurity Trainer that will use defined threat models and organizational security data together with identified vulnerabilities to create bespoke cyber-range scenarios and test cases, guiding end-users during execution and providing automated scoring and improvement guidelines.
Finally, UBITECH will unify the outcomes of developed components and services by integrating them into the LLM4CIP platform, delivering the LLM4CIP framework, unified dashboard and actionable User Interfaces. The company will also lead and coordinate Open Calls support and provide technical guidance during third-party implementation, with assistance from all partners according to their respective expertise and contributions.
“The LLM4CIP project represents a critical step toward making advanced cybersecurity capabilities accessible to organizations across all sectors,” said Mr. Giannis Ledakis, Head of Computing Systems & Software Engineering Research Group at UBITECH. “By combining our expertise in AI-driven systems with a deep understanding of critical infrastructure protection requirements, we are creating solutions that don’t just protect systems but empower people throughout organizations to actively participate in cybersecurity. This democratization of cyber-defence capabilities is essential for meeting the ambitious goals of the NIS2 Directive and building truly resilient digital infrastructures across Europe.”
The project’s 36-month duration will enable comprehensive development, testing, and validation of the LLM4CIP platform across diverse critical infrastructure sectors, ensuring practical applicability and measurable impact on Europe’s cybersecurity posture.
For more information about LLM4CIP, please visit the project website [https://llm4cip.eu/] or contact UBITECH’s Computing Systems & Software Engineering Research Group at https://ubitech.eu/cse/
