Deploying a high- assurance, evidence -based and continuous certification for Cloud Service Providers.
MEDINA contributes to the European Cloud Security Certification policy, enhances the trustworthiness of cloud services thanks to the compliance with security certification schemes, cooperates with relevant stakeholders, and helps Europe prepare for the cloud security challenges of tomorrow.
Certification metrics and specification languages
Automated evidence management
Lifecycle management of certificates
Continuous compliance
Latest Blog Posts
MEDINA Framework: a technical overview
The goal of the MEDINA project is to design and develop a security framework for automated evaluation of cloud service compliance with security standards. This post aims to provide a high-level technical overview of the MEDINA framework’s contents and introduces the...
MEDINA Risk Assessment tool
MEDINA aims to develop an innovative mechanism for supporting continuous monitoring of cyber security certification compliance for cloud services. Following a reputable standard is often considered as an approach for assuring high level of cyber security. At the same...
HOW TO ENABLE BETTER SECURITY POSTURE IN THE CLOUD ENVIRONMENT?
The cloud is constantly changing and moves faster than traditional periodic auditing can cover. The solution to this problem is continuous auditing. To make this happen, EU Horizon 2020 funded the innovation program Medina to develop a novel solution hitting the...
The role of standardization in MEDINA (part I – Introduction)
The topic of standardization plays a very important role in H2020 research projects like MEDINA. On one hand, projects are expected to constantly survey the standardization landscape in order to facilitate early adopters the integration of contributed frameworks into...
MEDINA General Assemblies
During 2021, 4 General Virtual Assemblies were held. Due to COVID-19, the meeting was held online using Teams. The Project began in November 2020. In the MEDINA kick off virtual meeting, where all the partners met and the procedures for achieving the project goals was...
HORIZON CLOUD SUMMIT
On December 2021, MEDINA was presented in the Horizon cloud Summit. Two of the companies participating in MEDINA, TECNALIA and BOSCH contributed to shaping the CloudComputing priorities fit for Europe's green & digital transformation. The session focussed on Cloud...