UBITECH participated at the kick-off meeting hosted by PLURIBUS ONE in Cagliari, Italy (October 5-6, 2023) of the APPTake Digital Europe project, officially started on October 1st, 2023. The project is funded by European Commission under Digital Europe Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101128082) and spans on the period October 2023 – September 2026. The APPTake project aims to secure the operation and business sustainability of European SMEs, building a portfolio of sustainable application security solutions to foster the adoption of DevSecOps practices by the European SMEs, increasing their cybersecurity capabilities.
APPtake will make available a marketplace platform to support interaction between suppliers and adopters of cybersecurity solutions and where the solutions of the seven technology providers in the project will be made available. The project will include both supply and demand support measures, implementing a maturity and integration phase of the solutions (supply) and featuring a massive demonstration plan with six end-users each from a different sector plus a hybrid online plus in-presence strategy to reach commercial partners and customers (demand). The project takes extensive advantage of the outcomes of past publicly-funded research in the EU, both for the marketplace and for the solutions, several of which have developed in the framework of EU-supported research and innovation projects.
UBITECH makes available to the APPtake ecosystem the DevSecOps Marketplace which will author the entire lifecycle of deployment and runtime of: (i) identity and access management services; (ii) data loss prevention services; (iii) web and apps security services; (iv) email security; (v) cybersecurity risk assessment; (vi) intrusion management; (vii) SIEM; (viii) encryption; (ix) business continuity disaster recovery as a service; and (x) network security.
UBITECH will extend and capitalize over its past experience w.r.t. cybersecurity marketplaces bringing its maturity from APPtake (https://puzzle-h2020.com) and SecureIoT (https://secureiot.eu/) projects. The challenges and limitations that will be addressed in APPtake lie within the realization and grounding of such solutions with real-world cases. The APPtake Marketplace will support (i) multi-roles; (ii) registering participants and business entities; (iii) search, access and discovery of DevSecOps service offerings; and (iv) a rich catalogue of DevSecOps services with management, auditing and tracking functionalities.
