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RESTASSURED - Secure Data Processing in the Cloud

  • Research and Innovation
  • European
  • Cloud
  • Federation
Last updated: 2021-10-27 03:33

Strategic Goals

Specific technical concerns of data protection in the cloud mean that privacy and security by design approaches will no longer be sufficient, due to uncertainty at design time of how the cloud and privacy requirements may dynamically evolve and change at run time.

Solutions Developed / Used

Secure cloud computing is key for business success and end-user adoption of federated and decentralized cloud services and thus essential to stimulate the growth of the European Digital Single Market. RestAssured will provide solutions to specific technical concerns of data protection in the cloud (such as geo-location restrictions on personal data), which are imposed by the dynamic, multi-stakeholder and decentralized nature of federated cloud systems.

Description

Start Date 01/01/2017
End Date 31/12/2019
Project Focus
  • Operator
Geographical Scope
  • European
Keywords
  • Cloud
  • Federation
Cloud Delivery Model
  • SaaS
Project Life-Cycle Stage
  • Research and Innovation
Industry
  • Information and Communication
Specific Domains Targeted
  • Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Technology
  • Big Data

Stakeholders


    Academic/Research Organisations
  • Germany
    UNIVERSITAET DUISBURG-ESSEN (Germany)
  • United Kingdom
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (United Kingdom)
    • Industry
  • Germany
    ADAPTANT SOLUTIONS AG (Germany)
  • Israel
    IBM ISRAEL - SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LTD (Israel)
  • United Kingdom
    OXFORD COMPUTER CONSULTANTS LIMITED (United Kingdom)
  • France
    THALES SERVICES SAS (France)
  • France
    THALES SIX GTS FRANCE SAS (France)


EU Contribution
  • €4,996,297.00
Overall Budget
  • €4,996,298.75

⭐ Good Practice Description

RestAssured set out to provide end-to-end security for sensitive data, with four components: ‘(1) fully homomorphic encryption to process data without decryption, with cloud enablement of SGX hardware for protected data processing, (2) sticky policies for decentralised data lifecycle management, (3) models@runtime for data protection assurance, and (4) automated risk management for run-time data protection.

Success Factors

Data Governance

The project partners developped The RestAssured project was well managed and successfully achieved innovative technology development, which is now being further developed by a follow-up project FOG PROTECT dealing with remaining technology challenges