EIT Digital accelerates cloud content
The drive to accelerate the European Trusted Cloud has progressed as European cybersecurity provider F-Secure roots out malicious content, using an EIT Digital innovation activity interface.
F-Secure announced its new ‘file and link’ content protection software, which utilises the deliverables of the Trusted Data Management with Service Ecosystem innovation activity of EIT Digital.
The Trusted Data Management innovation activity aims to accelerate European Trusted Cloud businesses and ecosystems by providing better tools and services for consumers and businesses to take greater control over the use of personal and sensitive data.
Markku Kutvonen, director of external research and development collaboration at F-Secure, and the lead of the EIT Digital innovation activity, said: “We have seen big digital transformations in cloudification, internet of things (IoT) and EU regulations.
“This EIT Digital activity will create the means to support European companies in adapting to new security and privacy challenges, and enable better protection for their customers from cyber threats.
“F-Secure has piloted, with the partners taking part in this activity, a way to remove malicious files and URLs in cloud services, at the times when everything is managed in the cloud and the only user interface is via the browser in a device. This adds an important layer of customer security to any independent software vendor’s offering.”
In addition to F-Secure, other EIT Digital partners participating in the Trusted Data Management with Service Ecosystem Innovation Activity include British Telecom, Telecom Italia, Reply, Bittium and a multitude of SMEs and research institutions.
Kutvonen, added: “Thanks to the multi-organisational work model of the innovation activity, we were able to create an ecosystem that combines SMEs and bigger corporations in building great services together, addressing real customer problems – something which would have been difficult to achieve otherwise.”
The first customer pilots are under way and F-Secure expects to launch the solution globally in 2017.
