Moldova’s public services are more digital, and therefore more exposed, than ever. During the 2025 elections, around 14 million cyber incidents were recorded. IRIS was built in response: an AI-based platform that simulates cyber attacks to identify vulnerabilities in the networks of public and private institutions.
How IRIS works
Your institution
- Public websites
- Networks and services
- Digital infrastructure
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Collect
IRIS gathers data about an institution’s digital exposure from every angle it can see.
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Think like an attacker
Artificial intelligence reasons about which attacks could realistically target that institution.
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Simulate
The platform simulates attacks to confirm where the real weaknesses are.
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Answer
It reports how secure the institution is, what could hit it, and how to defend it effectively.
Your defence
Prioritised findings and guidance your team can act on.
What IRIS brings to an institution
An attacker’s view, on demand
IRIS reasons like an adversary about your specific institution: what is exposed, what is reachable, what would be tried first.
Attack simulation, not guesswork
Weaknesses are confirmed by simulating the attacks that could target them, so teams act on evidence.
End-to-end coverage
Designed to protect every segment of an institution, from public websites to internal infrastructure.
A clear answer for decision makers
How secure the institution is, which attacks it faces and how to defend effectively, in one assessment.
Built for scale
The same platform serves a single website or a large, complex infrastructure, with AI assisting the automation.
Made in Moldova, for Moldova
Designed around the threats the country actually faces, by the students who will defend it.
From one website to national infrastructure
IRIS was designed to work at every scale an institution operates at.
- SA single website
Public services and portals citizens use every day. - MAn organisation
All the systems of one institution, agency or company. - LComplex infrastructure
Large, distributed networks and services. - XLNational critical infrastructure
The institutions and government services the country depends on.
Who IRIS is for
Public institutions and government services
The digital services citizens rely on, and that attackers target.
Critical infrastructure
Operators whose downtime would be felt across the country.
Agencies and companies
Organisations with complex systems that need to know where they stand.
The road to IRIS
- 2025
Elections under attack
Around 14 million cyber incidents were recorded during the elections.
- ~1 year
Development
ASSI students build the platform, with the support of the CyberCore Research Center.
- 06.07.2026
Launch
IRIS is presented as the national cyber defence platform.
- Phase 1
Partner testing
Deployment with partner institutions, agencies and companies. UTM is the first beneficiary.
- Phase 2
Public version
A public version of the platform.
Context
“IRIS uses artificial intelligence and thinks exactly like an attacker.”
- Launched
- 06.07.2026
- Development
- ~1 year
- Built by
- ASSI, FCIM, UTM
- Supported by
- CyberCore Research Center
- Incidents in 2025 elections
- ~14 million
IRIS on screen
Reports from the launch and an interview with the ASSI President. Videos load from YouTube only when you press play.
IRIS in the press
- Radio MoldovaNational digital defence platform launched in Moldova: think like an attacker to find security gapsJuly 2026 · RO
- Radio MoldovaUTM students unveil IRIS to combat hackersJuly 2026 · EN
- Moldova 1IRIS, Moldova’s new digital “weapon” against hackers, developed by UTM studentsJuly 2026 · RO
- Moldova 1IRIS: Moldova’s new anti-hacker tool built by UTM studentsJuly 2026 · EN