From May 12 to 14, our colleagues Angello Suárez and Marc Baulenas represented IThinkUPC at the penultimate plenary meeting of the European ExtremeXP project, held at SINTEF’s facilities in Oslo, Norway. This meeting marked a new milestone for the consortium, which continues to make solid progress toward the final phase of the project.
Over three intense days of work and collaboration, project partners shared technical progress, framework integrations, and live demonstrations of the five use cases. The agenda also included social activities designed to strengthen team bonds, such as a sunset boat trip through the Oslo fjord.
Our contribution: cybersecurity with real data
IThinkUPC plays a key role in Use Case 2 (UC2) of the project, focused on situational awareness in cybersecurity. During the meeting, we presented the evolution of our data acquisition architecture (logs) in real environments at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, as well as progress in defining success indicators for the use case.
Thanks to our infrastructure, we contributed a robust set of datasets generated from both real and synthetic logs. These include records from Windows and Linux servers, along with logs generated using our own honeypots and tools like Atomic Red Team. This data enables AI models to classify vulnerabilities quickly and accurately — in some cases surpassing human capabilities.
Validation and next steps
The feedback received was very positive, especially regarding data volume, which meets the ExtremeXP requirements for “extreme data” scenarios. This validates the usefulness and real-world applicability of our contributions, including in testbed environments like the one developed by our partner i2CAT.
Over the coming months, we will continue to ingest new servers and TTP techniques, expanding the diversity of detectable events and further improving the training of automated detection models.
A rewarding experience
Beyond technical progress, we take away a deeply enriching experience. Now in its third and final year, the project is showing concrete and promising results. We’re especially looking forward to the final plenary in Athens, where the project’s outcomes will be presented.
At IThinkUPC, we remain committed to driving innovation in cybersecurity and playing an active role in European projects that advance cutting-edge technologies like AI applied to security.
