SMESEC is a project proposed by an international group of experts as a response to the cyber-security challenges of SMEs with a limited background on cyber-security and a restricted budget. The SMESEC suite will be developed in 36 months by a strong consortium of 12 partners from 7 countries. The consortium is led by ATOS, with many years of experience in project management and cyber-security, and involves large companies, SMEs, research centers, and universities. While supported by research centers and universities, SMESEC is an industry-oriented project, where the private companies will cover more than 73% of the total project costs.
| ATOS Spain SA | Spain |  |
| Worldsensing S.L.N.E | Spain |  |
| Panepistimio Patron | Greece |  |
| Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas | Greece |  |
| Easy Global Market SAS | France |  |
| Scytl Secure Electronic Voting SA | Spain |  |
| Gridpocket SAS | France |  |
| University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland | Switzerland |  |
| Citrix Greece MEPE | Greece |  |
| IBM Israel Science and Technology Ltd | Israel |  |
| Bitdefender SRL | Romania |  |
| University of Utrecht | Netherlands |  |