ATHENE conducts application-oriented top-level research for the benefit of the economy, society and the state. ATHENE is a research center of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft with the participation of the Fraunhofer Institutes SIT and IGD as well as the TU Darmstadt and the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. The centre is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts (HMWK) and is located in the city of science Darmstadt, Germany's top address for cyber security research.