In March 2025, Bernhard Garn and Dimitris Simos visited the NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH “DEMOKRITOS” (NCSR-D) in Athens, Greece. During their visit, they met with Georgios Xilouris, Head of the Network Operations Center (NOC) at the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications (IIT) of NCSR-D. Both NCSR-D and SBA are partners in the INTACT project, which proposes an Integrated Software Toolbox that will offer predictive Cybersecurity sensing, optimization and management services for the distributed IoT-to-Cloud continuum. NOC leads one of the pilots of INTACT, which is about a safety-critical network environment that includes SDN/NFV and IoT-Edge technologies with radiation and environmental sensors. In their technical exchange, they discussed technical aspects of INTACT and in particular focused on the pilot let by NOC.
NCSR-D was founded in July 1961 as a research centre for nuclear research, Demokritos is today the largest multidisciplinary research centre of Greece with approximately 180 researchers in tenured and tenure-track positions and over 500 research personnel working in projects funded mainly by grants from state funds, the European Union and private industries.