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MEDINA Press Release (October 2023)
MEDINA: Security framework to achieve a continuous audit-based certification in compliance with the EU-wide cloud security certification scheme Bilbao, Spain, October 2023 MEDINA is an EU-funded initiative that enables Cloud Service Providers (CSP) to achieve a...
Securing the Cloud: A Look into EUCS and the MEDINA Project
This blogpost investigates three aspects of cloud security: an overview of cloud security in general, the European Union Cloud Security Certification (EUCS), and the MEDINA project. This article helps organizations to familiarize themselves with the future cloud...
Final MEDINA meeting with nominated experts
The fourth and final MEDINA ESG (Expert Stakeholder Group) meeting took place last October 9th 2023 via teleconference. After reviewing the basics of MEDINA’s approach and contributed framework, this meeting focused on presenting the developed validation use cases,...
Towards secure and trustworthy European Cloud Marketplace: MEDINA and DOME symbiosis
DOME is the European initiative to create a Federated European Marketplace Ecosystem for Cloud and Edge services. DOME project was launched in January 2023 and the first protype is about to be released with baseline capabilities for the Marketplace such as: Create a...
Enabling 360 Cloud security compliance: From Security certification to Secure DevOps through MEDINA and PIACERE H2020 projects
Cloud Computing is not only about moving Cloud resources capabilities to gain competitivity and sovereignty, but also about security and resilience. Cloud security can be adopted and enhanced from many perspectives and angles. In this blog post we analyse how the...
The EUCS Criteria Harmonizes Cloud Security: an interview with Niki Klaus, CEO of Nixu Certification.
If Europe excels in something, it's the creation of regulations. The new EUCS criteria harmonize cloud service security in the EU. Source: Toni Stubin – Tietoviikko The European Union's cybersecurity agency, ENISA, aims to standardize cloud service security in Europe....
Trustworthy evidence and assessment results for auditors
The MEDINA Evidence Trustworthiness Management System, provides a secure mechanism for MEDINA to maintain an audit trail of evidence and assessment results. It is implemented in Smart Contracts backboned by a common Blockchain network for several MEDINA instances,...
MEDINA presented at Rethink! Cloud Security in Berlin
Our technical project manager Dr. Jesus Luna Garcia (Bosch) was invited to provide a keynote speech about MEDINA at the ReThink!Cloud Security event in Berlin last September 21st 2023. The keynote introduced the main notions behind EUCS and in particular the concept...
Thesis on multicloud compliance automation produced in the context of MEDINA
In July this year our BSc student Levi Lübbe finalized his BSc thesis “Analyse und Vergleich von Compliance-Werkzeugen in Multi-Cloud-Umgebungen”, where he developed a framework to compare different Cloud Security Posture Management tools (CSPM) which exists in the...
Security and Certification Compliance of IOT to CLOUD Infrastructure: The complementarity of approaches between EU Projects MEDINA and FISHY
Secure and resilient ICT infrastructure, supply chains and workflows are being set as priorities in the process of digital transformation of many industries. And in that context, certification is fundamental to empower standards and gain back the trust in the digital...