Official launch of the ASCiDy project: a sovereign innovation for product cybersecurity

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MOABI

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12:55 pm
October 28, 2025

22 October 2025 marks an important milestone for French cybersecurity: the official launch of the ASCiDy project, a Technology Transfer Programme to Cyber Campuses (PTCC) led by EURECOM and MOABI, with the support of INRIA and Campus Cyber.

This project perfectly illustrates the synergy between academic innovation and industrial expertise, in an approach resolutely focused on digital sovereignty.

A project born out of a shared ambition

The ASCiDy project aims to enhance software product security through a proactive and automated approach to vulnerability detection.

With cyberattacks exploiting the software supply chain on the rise, the objective is clear: identify vulnerabilities before they become exploitable flaws.

Thanks to close collaboration between EURECOM’s research teams and MOABI’s industrial expertise, ASCiDy will enable the integration of a dynamic analysis (fuzzing) component into the MOABI platform, capable of testing software without requiring access to its source code.

This approach will enable the detection of zero-day vulnerabilities with unprecedented accuracy, while maintaining complete automation of the analysis and fuzzing processes.

An alliance between research and industry

ASCiDy’s success is based on a strategic alliance between three centres of excellence:

EURECOM, recognised worldwide for its research in cybersecurity and software instrumentation;
MOABI, an innovative SME specialising in supply chain security, reverse engineering and cyber compliance;
INRIA and Campus Cyber, catalysts for technology transfer and guarantors of the promotion of French innovation.

By combining these complementary areas of expertise, ASCiDy aims to create a new standard for software analysis in Europe, at the crossroads of academia and industry.

A direct response to current challenges

Product security and software supply chain control have become strategic priorities for both governments and manufacturers.

The European NIS2 Directive and the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) now impose strict requirements: companies must be able to prove the compliance and resilience of their software products.

MOABI directly addresses these challenges by enabling:

automatic auditing of all software without relying on source code;
risk assessment according to recognised standards (ISO 27005, MITRE ATT&CK);
continuously monitoring the emergence of new vulnerabilities through CVE monitoring;
and providing actionable evidence of compliance for regulatory audits.

The objective is twofold: to protect critical infrastructure and to equip industrial players to become autonomous in their product cybersecurity approach.

A major technical innovation

From a technical standpoint, ASCiDy complements the capabilities of the MOABI platform, which already specialises in static binary analysis.

With this new dynamic component, the platform will now combine two complementary approaches:

static analysis, to identify the structure, components and known vulnerabilities in software;
dynamic analysis, to observe the actual behaviour of a programme during execution and identify exploitable flaws.

This combination offers a 360° view of software security, where each component is analysed, correlated and continuously monitored.

The results are consolidated in a single dashboard, accessible to both technical experts and cybersecurity and compliance managers.

A long-term vision

Beyond technology, ASCiDy is part of a national and European strategic approach.

The project contributes to building a sovereign ecosystem of product cybersecurity innovation, based in Sophia-Antipolis and interconnected with French research and innovation hubs.

This vision is aligned with national priorities in terms of digital sovereignty and industrial resilience.

By making cybersecurity measurable, accessible and automated, ASCiDy aims to raise the overall level of security for economic players, from large groups to SMEs.

Many thanks to our partners and participants

MOABI would like to extend its warmest thanks to EURECOM, INRIA, Campus Cyber, and all the manufacturers, researchers and institutions that participated in the launch of the project.

Their presence and contributions confirm the relevance of this initiative and the collective desire to strengthen French cybersecurity.