For digital sovereignty and transparency in the cloud

Police & civil protection

Police and security authorities depend on fast and legally certain communication, not only in the event of disasters or confusing situations. The daily work is carried out by the authorities via digital radio communication. Messenger apps are also becoming increasingly established, although not in the sense of WhatsApp and similar apps.

Typically, the infrastructure of the security authorities is operated by the country‘s own IT providers in order to ensure full control over the data. Messenger apps such as stashcat are administered centrally and the corresponding apps are installed on police-owned or private (BYOD) mobile phones. SecuStack® offers a reliable platform on which these services can run and be operated in a legally secure manner.

Utilities: Edge Cloud

The energy transition is probably the most important project in our society today. Besides environmentally friendly energy generation, the greatest challenge at present is intelligent distribution and storage. At the same time, energy demand is increasing due to new data centres being built to host cloud services.

With a SecuStack® Edge Cloud, energy providers rely on a model that uses surplus energy directly where it is generated. In small decentralised data centres, energy is converted into computing power without feeding it into the grid. This increases the efficiency of plants and reduces costs for providers and consumers.

Healthcare

Health and patient data are increasingly processed in hyperconvergent ICT infrastructures. Local and central systems merge into each other, cross-organisational process routines establish themselves. Today, the virtualised and centralised IT services are often still operated „on premise“ due to compliance specifications. Cloud migration is subject to extensive regulatory requirements.

SecuStack® enables operators and providers of software solutions to transfer their current solutions to a cloud operating model that meets the special security requirements of German legislation. A trusted cloud infrastructure is being created as a security-hardened open-source cloud that connects all areas of medical care, e.g., patient data systems, medical technology, evaluation analytics and medical robotics.

VS Cloud for armed forces & authorities

The ultimate in data security is the handling of classified information (CI). They are classified by sovereign authorities and contain sensitive administrative documents, military mission data or even state secrets. To protect them, security measures are taken that seem excessive and inefficient in the private sector. At the same time, they form the everyday basis of government action. The SecuStack® infrastructure layer, provided in cooperation with IBM, RedHat and secunet, is based on an extensively hardened open source approach. It uses advanced design principles and security technologies as in the already VS-approved SINA products. SecuStack® is intended to establish itself as a cloud solution for VS-approved information.

Private cloud with client separation

If the data and applications of several organisations are processed in a central cloud infrastructure, a strict separation of services and clients must be ensured. In existing approaches, the separation takes place on the physical level. Separate racks with independent and disjoint components such as virtualisation solution, network and hardware must be procured and operated for each client. Especially the licensing of the market-leading proprietary software solutions (e.g., VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, Oracle ...) generates considerable costs. 

The SecuStack® technology enables client separation to be carried out at a higher level of abstraction. Strict cryptographic separation and flexible key management allow different clients to use the same components without compromising data protection and security. This significantly better utilisation of existing hardware resources and the lower licensing costs provide a considerable cost advantage.