Leonardo & Cubbit: the first ultra-secure cloud is born
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Thanks to the adoption of granular geographic data distribution technology, we are now capable of addressing the growing trend of data to be stored — expected to triple by 2026 — which will generate a parallel increase in risks, costs, and complexities related to their management.’
Carlo Cavazzoni, Head of Computational R&D at Leonardo
Data is protected thanks to an encrypted and distributed storage model that spreads information over the network. A new cloud architecture will ensure maximum data security and usability.
Rome / Bologna, Italy — 29th September, 2023 — To develop its technologies and safeguard its capabilities, Leonardo manages about 20 million billion pieces of data. Protecting this data is a matter of strategic importance for Italy as a whole.
To address this issue in an innovative way, Leonardo, together with Cubbit, is implementing a new cloud architecture capable of ensuring both maximum security and maximum usability of the data. The concept was to devise a system capable of "fragmenting" the data over multiple points in the system (nodes of the cloud network). The fragmented data is stored in many fragments so that, in the event of an attack (e.g., malware), the individual fragment becomes the first sensor of an ongoing attack. Once the attack is detected, the node is isolated, the data fragment is deleted, and the rest of the network goes into a defensive mode, increasing its counter-offensive potential by leveraging its intrinsic supercomputing capability, thus raising a barrier that is impregnable.
