AEGIS IT Research

What AEGIS IT Research does

AEGIS IT Research GmbH is an R&D-driven software company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Braunschweig, Germany, with an additional office in Athens, Greece. The company operates as an applied research and product engineering firm focused on three interlocking domains: cybersecurity (threat intelligence, situational awareness), forensic analytics (criminal and behavioral), and business intelligence/data analytics. Its commercial and operational reach is anchored in European law enforcement agencies (notably through the EU-funded ROXANNE project, validated with 20+ LEAs), enterprises (validations with Telefonica I+D, CaixaBank, and Centro Ricerche FIAT under the I-BiDaaS program), and EU research consortia.

The company's product portfolio centers on the Griphia platform (forensic-psychology and behavioral analysis), the Audio-Visualization Toolkit (AVT) and Forensic Visualization Toolkit (FVT) used for evidence triage, the AEGIS SARC situational-awareness engine, and the IntelliCloak cyber threat intelligence application published on the MISP platform. The underlying technology stack combines multiple AI/ML components — Whisper for automatic speech recognition, GLiNER for named-entity recognition, CLIP for visual analysis, graph neural networks for relationship/case-link recommendation, and generative AI pipelines aligned to clinical frameworks such as DSM-5 for behavioral analysis. The company has accumulated 19 peer-reviewed publications and has been repeatedly validated by the EU Innovation Radar (2020–2025) as a Key Innovator on multiple projects.

Commercially, AEGIS appears to combine several revenue streams: EU grant-funded R&D participation (35+ projects under Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020), licensing/sales of its software products with trial-based onboarding for AVT/FVT, bespoke cybersecurity consulting and digital forensics services, and integration partnerships with platforms such as MISP and IBM. The pricing model, customer concentration, and recurring revenue mechanics are not publicly disclosed, and the company does not appear to have raised external venture funding — it remains founder/management owned. Its go-to-market is a mix of self-serve product trials for tooling products, field-test validations inside EU projects, and direct enterprise/Law Enforcement Agency engagements.

Name

AEGIS IT Research

Legal name

AEGIS IT RESEARCH GmbH

Website

https://aegisresearch.eu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

AEGIS IT Research GmbH is a German R&D firm that develops AI-powered cybersecurity, forensic analytics, and business intelligence products, including the Griphia forensic intelligence platform and IntelliCloak threat-intelligence application, serving law enforcement agencies, enterprises, and EU research consortia across Europe.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cybersecurity & Forensic Analytics Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Other Computer Related Services (541519)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Cybersecurity & Identity Consulting (BPAHAEAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Threat Intelligence Services (BPAEADAC), Cybersecurity Architecture & Security Integration (BPAEAAAL), Enterprise Security Strategy & Program Advisory (BPAKADAA)

Keywords

• Cybersecurity software
• Digital forensics tools
• AI threat intelligence
• Security visualization
• Forensic analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

Braunschweig

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. EU Research Project Funding: AEGIS participates in numerous EU-funded research projects under Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 programs, receiving grants for cybersecurity, AI, manufacturing, healthcare, and digital innovation research. The company coordinates and contributes to projects including VIGILANCE, SONIC, TURING, ENFORCE, and many others.
2. Product Licensing: Products such as Griphia, FVT, AVT and specialized toolkits are offered as software solutions that can be licensed to enterprises and law enforcement agencies.
3. Cybersecurity Consulting Services: Comprehensive cybersecurity solutions including risk & threat assessment, security implementation, monitoring & management, and team training services are provided to private and public sector clients.
4. Digital Forensics Services: Post-mortem digital forensics investigation solutions including forensics analysis, consultation, training, digital evidence collection and analysis, and Critical Infrastructure assessments.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

AEGIS IT Research develops and licenses AI-powered cybersecurity, digital forensics, and business intelligence software for enterprises and government/law enforcement agencies. Its core products include the Griphia forensic psychology analytics platform, the Advanced Visualization Toolkit (AVT) for big data exploration, the Forensics Visualization Toolkit (FVT) for security operations, and the IntelliCloak threat intelligence platform. The company also delivers complementary cybersecurity consulting services including risk assessment, security implementation, monitoring/management, and team training.

Product overview

AEGIS IT Research is an R&D company offering a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity, forensic analytics, and business intelligence products. The core offerings include Griphia (AI-powered forensic intelligence platform), the Advanced Visualization Toolkit (AVT) for big data analytics, and the Forensics Visualization Toolkit (FVT) for security operations. These are supplemented by specialized AI modules for behavioral analysis, voice analytics, text processing/NER, visual recommendation, and micro-marketing. Security-focused products include the ASA Toolkit for vulnerability assessment, ASKR for IoT security, BAMF for blockchain asset management, AEGIS SARC for alert correlation, and IntelliCloak for threat intelligence. The company also provides digital forensics investigation services and cybersecurity consulting. The product architecture follows a platform-plus-modules approach where Griphia serves as the primary AI forensic platform with specialized add-on capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Griphia: AI-powered forensic intelligence platform for investigative professionals.
• AVT (Advanced Visualization Toolkit)
• FVT (Forensics Visualization Toolkit)

Products and services

• Griphia AI-powered forensic intelligence platform for investigative professionals, providing multimodal data processing, forensic psychology analysis, AI-enabled audio text processing, multilingual Named Entity Recognition, and intelligent suspect prioritization. Available via self-service with a free trial at griphia.com/try-griphia/.
• Advanced Visualization Toolkit (AVT) Big data visualization platform enabling single-click visual data exploration with pre-configured visualizations and advanced filtering capabilities. Supports timeline analysis, graph-based visualizations, side-by-side comparison, AI-powered analytics, and interactive investigation for business intelligence and decision-making. Demo registration available at avt-demo.aegisresearch.eu. Recognized as Business Ready by the European Commission Innovation Radar.
• Forensics Visualization Toolkit (FVT) Digital forensics visualization toolkit with AI-enabled alert fatigue reduction, supporting real-time security alert analysis, digital forensics investigations, threat hunting, and incident investigation. Features balanced automation and human oversight in Security Incident Management, AI-enabled alert pre-processing, visualization-based situational awareness amplification, and timeline analysis. Field-tested with 20+ law enforcement agents during the ROXANNE project.
• IntelliCloak Cyber Threat Intelligence application built on MISP foundations with automation, integration, threat data quality enhancement, SSO support, and specialized taxonomies for refined tagging. Provides REST API connectivity for seamless integration with SIEM, SOAR, and NDR platforms.
• Cybersecurity Consulting - Risk & Threat Assessment Comprehensive security audits and vulnerability assessments to identify potential risks, including network vulnerability scanning, risk analysis and reporting, compliance assessment, and security gap identification.
• Cybersecurity Consulting - Security Implementation Deployment of robust security measures and protocols tailored to client infrastructure, including security architecture design, firewall configuration, access control systems, and encryption deployment.
• Cybersecurity Consulting - Monitoring & Management Security monitoring, incident detection, and response services including real-time threat detection, incident response planning, SIEM implementation, and SOC setup and optimization.
• Cybersecurity Consulting - Team Training & Awareness Security awareness training and best practices for client teams and stakeholders, including phishing simulation, security awareness programs, best practices workshops, and Red/Blue Team training.
• Digital Forensics Investigation Services Comprehensive post-mortem digital forensics investigation services including physical asset forensics, consultation, training, digital evidence collection and analysis, and Critical Infrastructure assessments for law enforcement and government clients.

Quantifiable outcome

• AVT identified as Business Ready by European Commission Innovation Radar (Market Maturity)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

AI capability13 records

Feature12 records

Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• University of Athens (Greece)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEuropean research collaboration partner in GANDALF project. University of Athens collaborates with AEGIS on cutting-edge cybersecurity research initiatives as part of EU-funded research projects.
• Technical University of Munich (Germany)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partner in CoEvolution project focusing on comprehensive trustworthy framework for connected machine learning and secure interconnected AI solutions.
• KU Leuven (Belgium)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEuropean research partner in CONSENTIS project for consent management in digital services, collaborating on privacy-preserving technology solutions.
• University of Bologna (Italy)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in EUDOROS project addressing high criticality sectors under EU Directive 2022/2555 (NIS2) including Energy, Transport, Banking, Digital Infrastructure, Public Administration, and Healthcare.
• NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and TechnologycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch collaboration in EU-INSPIRE project for innovative multi-disciplinary industry-focused cybersecurity education for upskilling and reskilling the EU workforce.
• Technical University of Madrid (Spain)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in CURIUM project contributing to Europe's transformation into a Trustworthy Certified Digital Valley through cybersecurity research.
• University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEuropean research collaboration partner in various EU-funded innovation projects focusing on cybersecurity and digital transformation.
• Universite Catholique De LouvaincoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborates with AEGIS in SYMBIOTIK project on adaptive human-computer interaction and neuroadaptive visualization systems. Innovation recognized by EU Innovation Radar.
• Telefónica Innovación DigitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in SYMBIOTIK project on adaptive visualization systems. AEGIS also validates AVT with Telefonica I+D in I-BiDaaS project for telecommunications use cases.
• Telefonica I+DcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerI-BiDaaS project validation partner. AVT used for traffic prediction, network optimization, and customer satisfaction analysis in telecommunications scenarios.
• CAIXA (CaixaBank)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerI-BiDaaS project validation partner. AVT tested for customer relationship identification, anomaly detection in bank transfers, and mobile banking analysis.
• Centro Ricerche FIAT (CRF)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerI-BiDaaS project validation partner. AVT validated for production asset monitoring, maintenance optimization, and defect correlation in manufacturing.
• AEGIS Research - Vienna OfficecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAEGIS office in Vienna, Austria participates in EU-INSPIRE and CURIUM projects as part of the company's European research network.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• MSAB: Mobile forensics vendor serving law enforcement with digital evidence extraction and analysis tools — comparable niche (LEA-focused forensics) but with a more specialized mobile-device focus than AEGIS's multimodal Griphia approach.
• Exabeam: Security analytics and SOC automation vendor focused on alert reduction, behavioral analytics and threat detection — directly comparable to AEGIS SARC and FVT offerings for SOC analysts.
• Magnet Forensics: Digital forensics vendor providing investigative tools used heavily by law enforcement agencies — highly comparable to AEGIS's Griphia forensic intelligence and FVT forensics visualization products serving the same LEA buyer segment.
• Darktrace: AI-native cybersecurity vendor offering self-learning threat detection and SOC analytics (similar to AEGIS SARC). Both sell AI-driven anomaly detection and alert-correlation capabilities to enterprise and public-sector buyers, though Darktrace operates at much larger scale.
• Cellebrite: Digital intelligence vendor specializing in mobile forensics and investigative analytics for law enforcement and intelligence agencies — directly comparable to Griphia's forensic psychology analytics and digital evidence use cases for LEAs.
• Recorded Future: Threat intelligence platform providing aggregated, scored cyber threat data with SIEM/SOAR integrations — directly comparable to AEGIS's IntelliCloak CTI product built on MISP.
• Maltego: Investigation and link-analysis platform widely used by law enforcement, cybersecurity and fraud investigators for visualizing complex entity relationships — directly comparable to AEGIS's FVT forensics visualization and Griphia investigative analytics capabilities.

Emerging players

• Tines: Workflow automation and SOAR platform for security teams with no-code automation — emerging adjacent player addressing the same SOC analyst productivity and alert fatigue challenges as AEGIS SARC.

Broad incumbents

• IBM Security: Broad cybersecurity incumbent offering SIEM (QRadar), threat intelligence, incident response and consulting services — overlaps with AEGIS's IntelliCloak, SARC, ASA Toolkit and consulting services but at vastly greater scale.
• Palo Alto Networks: Broad cybersecurity platform vendor spanning EDR/XDR, SIEM (Cortex), threat intelligence (Unit 42) and consulting — incumbent competing across most of AEGIS's product categories.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/aegis-it-research

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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