Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Information Security in Edge-Cloud Applications

As Cloud–Edge–IoT (CEI) ecosystems continue to evolve across Europe’s digital landscape, the need to securely share, process, and govern data across distributed environments has become a central challenge. While edge computing strengthens local data control and confidentiality, many advanced applications still require cross-domain data exchange and aggregation to deliver meaningful insights and ensure operational efficiency.

In this context, Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) are increasingly recognised as a key enabler for reconciling data usability with data protection, sovereignty, and trust. By embedding security and privacy mechanisms directly into system architectures, PETs support a “security and privacy by design” approach for next-generation digital infrastructures. However, their real-world adoption requires careful integration of technical, regulatory, and application-specific considerations.

COP-PILOT Horizon will contribute to the upcoming CEI-Sphere webinar, joining forces with O-CEI Horizon and other leading initiatives to explore how these challenges are being addressed in practice within large-scale, operational environments.

The project will share insights from its Large-Scale Pilot activities, highlighting hands-on experience in deploying CEI solutions across complex, multi-actor ecosystems. These experiences will illustrate how secure data sharing, interoperability, and trust can be achieved in real-world conditions, beyond theoretical frameworks.

The webinar will feature:

• A presentation of a PET study developed by Fraunhofer ISST, providing a structured approach for selecting and implementing PET strategies in edge–cloud systems
• Practical insights from the COP-PILOT and O-CEI Large-Scale Pilots, showcasing real-world deployment experiences in CEI environments
• A panel discussion on secure, scalable, and trustworthy Cloud–Edge–IoT architectures supporting Europe’s digital transformation

By bridging research and deployment experience, COP-PILOT aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of how PETs can be effectively implemented to enable secure collaboration, data sovereignty, and innovation across distributed infrastructures.

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