The Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) is one of the largest research institutes of Greece with well-organized facilities and highly qualified staff.

It operates under the supervision of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT) of the Hellenic Ministry of Education. FORTH has been ranked the 12th place at European level in the Fourth FP7 Monitoring Report of the 20 research organizations with the highest numbers of participations in FP7 signed grant agreements during the period 2007-2010. FORTHcert, is the Computer Emergency Response Team of FORTH and provides professional and managed IT security services to assess and manage information risk and emerging threats for complex multi-site enterprise establishments and major domestic and International corporations and organizations. As part of our Security framework that delivers comprehensive security and integrated management, FORTHcert leverages the power of the cloud and international collaboration through its active participation in all major Computer Emergency Response Team (CERTs) communities, including FIRST and TERENA TI, to help organizations realize faster time-to-protection to secure their businesses.

In CERTCOOP, FORTHcert will use its expertise in Computer Security Incident Response, Network and Communication Security, Cyber-Physical Systems and Data and Knowledge Management for the implementation of this project.