SENTINEL at a glance

SENTINEL will bridge the security and personal data protection gap for European SMEs/MEs, by raising awareness and boosting their capabilities in the domain through innovation at a cost-effective level. This vision will be realised by integrating tried-and-tested security and privacy technologies into a unified digital architecture and then applying disruptive Intelligence for Compliance. Combined with a well-researched methodology for application and knowledge sharing and a wide-reaching plan for experimentation for innovation, SENTINEL will help small enterprises feel considerably more secure and safeguard their and their customers’ assets.

Objectives

Develop and support an end-to-end digital Privacy and Personal Data Protection (PDP) compliance framework and Identity Management System (IdMS) that enables Speed, Flexibility, Quality, Efficiency and Security for SMEs/MEs.
Provide technological advances in SMEs/MEs’ data protection compliance assessment, such as technologies on automated compliance, cyber-security and protection, tailor-made automated requirements engineering as a service, machine (deep) learning and anomaly detection, a unified Identity Management System, and ML-facilitated multi-criteria recommendation systems.
Provide novel tools and services for enabling highly-automated PDP compliance in SMEs/MEs, leveraging innovative collection of self-serving, state-of-the-art security- and privacy-enhancing modules, both open-source and contributed by consortium partners.
Validate, demonstrate and carry out experimental evaluation of the proposed framework on real-world SMEs/MEs operation scenarios.
Consolidate international and European links, raise awareness, collaborate with standardisations bodies and ensure the technology transfer of project’s results via EU digital innovation hubs.
Boost the effectiveness of the EU data economy, by offering high TRL solutions (TRL 6-7).