Oktawave’s project named “NextGen Cloud” aims to strengthen the EU’s digital industry, both at the infrastructure and service level, and to strengthen European sovereignty over data and technology. As part of the project, the company planned to conduct research, development and investment works, as a result of a proprietary and open technology. This is necessary to make secure cloud computing available in the federation model, new generation infrastructure, i.e. one with a sufficient level of automation. This is the basis to resolve data in-motion issues for new generation technologies (e.g., containerisation and its successors, edge computing) built in an architecture consisting of central (regional) data centres – and so-called near edge, in which data processing will take place.
The project’s key activities will focus on research and development of the cloud-provider independent technology to protect and secure data processing in public clouds. The project will cover the encryption area of the storage, and processing stage, including the use of encryption schemes that allow for the processing of encrypted data. The company will involve the technologies that introduce secure password storage functions (e.g. based on RiffleScrambler schemes) or schemes that allow for encryption while maintaining the format (e.g. based on GraFPE), which the company previously researched.