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Over the past decade we are witnessing an ever-increasing amount of cyberattacks on the Internet. Prolific, ingenious, and ranging in style from large-scale worms to 'below the radar' phishing attempts, cyberattacks have evolved to unprecedented levels of sophistication. To counter these cyberattacks, defenders are (mostly) developing safeguards, after the attack was made. In the meantime, while defenders are busy with mending the fences, attackers had already developed and planned their next strike

SUPERCLOUD researches and develops new security and dependability infrastructure management paradigm. Our approach is on one hand, User-Centric for self-service clouds-of-clouds, i.e., customers can define their own protection requirements and avoid provider lock-ins. On the other hand we focus on Self-Managed services for self-protecting clouds-of-clouds which can reduce administration complexity through automation.

Water critical infrastructures (CIs) are essential for human society, life and health and they can be endangered by physical/cyber threats with severe societal consequences. To address this, STOP-IT assembles a team of major Water Utilities, industrial technology developers, high tech SMEs and top EU R&D providers.

Our vision is to reconcile Big Data innovation with the requirements of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) through technical solutions making the achievement of both of these goals realistic. They allow citizens and organisations to share more data while maintaining compliance with the GDPR, as well as supporting data protection and transparency.