ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL BELGIUM SA

Their core work

Engineering International Belgium is a Brussels-based private company operating in cybersecurity and digital risk management. Their H2020 work centers on assessing how organizations can be manipulated through social engineering attacks and quantifying the economic damage that cyber incidents cause to enterprises. In DOGANA they contributed to building a vulnerability assessment framework focused on human-factor attack vectors; in HERMENEUT they supported economic simulation of modern cyber attacks to help firms understand and manage intangible losses. Their practical value lies at the intersection of technical security analysis and business risk quantification — translating cyber threats into economic terms that decision-makers can act on.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their H2020 participation opens in 2015 with DOGANA, where the emphasis is on the human side of cybersecurity — social engineering as an attack method and organizational vulnerability to it. By 2017, when they appear in HERMENEUT as a third-party contributor, the focus has shifted toward the economic and managerial layer: how do cyber attacks translate into financial and intangible losses, and how can those losses be modeled and simulated? The arc is from attack-vector assessment toward risk economics — a move up the decision-making chain from technical teams toward CFOs and risk officers.

They appear to be moving toward the business-facing layer of cybersecurity — quantifying and communicating cyber risk in economic terms — which aligns with growing demand from boards, insurers, and regulators for measurable cyber risk metrics.

How they like to work

Engineering International Belgium has never led an H2020 project as coordinator; they join consortia as a contributing partner or third party, suggesting they bring specific domain expertise rather than project management capacity. Their two projects involved large consortia (26 unique partners across 12 countries for DOGANA alone), meaning they are comfortable operating within complex multi-stakeholder research environments. Their third-party role in HERMENEUT — outside the formal consortium — indicates they can plug in as a specialist supplier even without a formal partnership agreement.

Their two projects brought them into contact with 26 distinct consortium partners spread across 12 countries, an unusually broad network for an organization with only two projects. This suggests DOGANA — their only directly funded project — was a large, multi-partner initiative that gave them significant European exposure.

What sets them apart

Engineering International Belgium occupies a specific niche: cybersecurity expertise translated into economic and managerial language, aimed at enterprise decision-makers rather than purely technical audiences. Their combined presence in both a social engineering assessment project (DOGANA) and an economic risk simulation project (HERMENEUT) positions them to bridge the gap between IT security teams and business leadership. For a consortium building a security project that needs both technical assessment capability and business-impact modeling, they could serve as the link between those two worlds.

Highlights from their portfolio

• DOGANA
  Their only directly funded H2020 project, earning EUR 275,112 as a formal participant in a large multi-country consortium focused on social engineering attack frameworks — a technically specific and practically valuable cybersecurity domain.
• HERMENEUT
  Notable for its unusual focus on the economic modeling of intangible cyber losses — reputational damage, IP theft, operational disruption — an area that most security research avoids because it is hard to quantify.