The National Research Centre for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE accompanies and supports the digital transformation of society, industry and the public sector to improve cybersecurity and data protection. ATHENE is a research center of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft with its two institutes SIT and IGD and with the involvement of the universities TU Darmstadt, Goethe University Frankfurt and Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. With more than 600 researchers, ATHENE is the most prominent cybersecurity research center in Europe and the leading scientific research institution in Germany in this field.