
Investigating effective and efficient approaches to trust, assurance and compliance in the ICT market
The EU-SEC project studied ways to improve approaches to trust, assurance and compliance in the ICT market. To achieve its goal, EU-SEC created a framework under which existing certification and assurance approaches in the ICT market could co-exist.
The multinational and multidisciplinary consortium worked to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of existing approaches for assurance and compliance in the ICT market. The three core ideas behind the EU-SEC project were that an effective and efficient approach to trust, assurance and compliance has to:
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Balance the need of nations and business sectors to develop their specific certification schemas, bearing in mind the need to reduce compliance costs
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Avoid humans, namely auditors, doing activities that could be performed by machines (e.g. data collection)
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Ensure that accurate and reliable evidence/information is provided to the relevant people, in a timely fashion, leveraging automatic means as much as possible.
The project’s main outcomes were:
Funding
EU-SEC was funded through the European Commission’s H2020 programme under grant agreement 731845. SixSq was funded by SERI under contract number 17.0004.
The project involved nine partners from seven countries:
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Fraunhofer, Germany. Consortium leader.
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Fabasoft Cloud, Austria
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Ministry of Finance, Slovakia
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Ministry of public administration, Slovenia
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NIXU, Finland
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PwC, Germany
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SixSq, Switzerland