Advancing cybersecurity research for national defense.
ASSI is the student association that builds, tests and teaches cyber defence for the Republic of Moldova, from the Technical University of Moldova.
ASSI
We are students of information security who decided not to wait for graduation to be useful. ASSI turns research into working defence: a national platform that tests institutions the way an attacker would, an academy that prepares the next generation of defenders, and a forum where the country discusses how to keep its democracy secure.
- IRIS launched
- 06.07.2026
- Academy cohort
- ~100 students
- Forum 2026
- ~350 participants
- Headquarters
- UTM, Chișinău
IRIS thinks like an attacker, so institutions do not have to find out the hard way.
Platforma Națională de Apărare Cibernetică IRIS uses artificial intelligence to examine an institution from every angle and answer three questions: how secure it is, which attacks could target it, and how to defend it.
Simulates real attacks
IRIS reproduces the techniques adversaries use, to find weaknesses before they do.
Analyses from every angle
It collects and correlates an institution’s exposure across its whole digital footprint.
Scales from a website to infrastructure
Built with AI assistance and automation for small sites and large systems alike.
Built with partners who share the mission.
University, research and civil society partners behind our programmes.
- Technical University of Moldova (UTM)Host university
- Faculty of Computers, Informatics and Microelectronics (FCIM)Faculty
- CyberCore Research CenterIRIS partner
- ELSA MoldovaForum co-organiser
In the press
What national media have reported about ASSI and IRIS.