Decentriq convinces Cyber Startup Challenge jury

Large organisations have the dilemma of choosing between sharing data and losing control and protection over the data or silo data and miss opportunities to reduce their risk and increase their competitive edge.

Decentriq offers a way to resolve this trade-off by providing data clean rooms for secure and straightforward data collaboration. The platform uses the latest developments in cryptography, confidential data processing and filtering techniques to protect privacy. Multiple parties can collaborate on sensitive private data within data clean rooms and perform any analysis on the merged sensitive data. No parties have direct access to this data, as it is protected by encryption techniques. The participants neither have to trust other members, nor Decentriq or the cloud provider.

For example, the technology enables internal and external stakeholders and critical infrastructure companies to securely share cyber telemetry data and obtain aggregated and anonymous insights. This leads to an improvement in their overall cyber security without compromising on data protection.

Supporting start-ups and innovative technologies

After last year's edition, the Cyber Startup Challenge took place for the second time this year. In July 2021, the Cyber Defence Campus of the DDPS launched the call for innovative solutions around the topic of «Strengthen your Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC)». A total of 38 start-ups responded to the call and presented their solutions to the jury consisting of cyber experts from the Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) and armasuisse Science and Technology.

The aim of the challenge was to explore the start-up technology landscape around Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) for critical infrastructures and to bring innovative technologies to the DDPS.

(Press release / SK)