CyberSecurity and Data Protection for Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises

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"CYSSME considers that the majority of Cybersecurity Resilience challenges for companies and independents in Europe can be solved with existing products, solutions, technologies, methodologies, policies and processes, but that the process of providing these to SMEs needs to be innovated. It intends to facilitate access to these technologies by matching the available components based on a preselected series of European-originated and operated Cybersecurity Solutions that holistically connect multiple technology layers and upon supported installation can be autonomously maintained by the Micro, Small or Medium Enterprise (ME / SME). The majority of solutions collected have been supported by Europe or European Member States through research and development or innovation funding. CYSSME is built upon the already existing Cybersecurity Solutions Framework which connects to a Cybersecurity application store containing both Open Source and commercially available technologies. CYSSME considers the needs and requirements of every individual MEs and SMEs (demand-driven) rather than for SMEs to try to discover their best solution based on an uninformed and non-expert decision, without any further support or guidance. It is our believe that there is no such a thing as ""an"" ME or SME, and that only a very targeted approach to most companies will be advancing their state of cybersecurity. Every company is unique, as it consists of one or multiple individuals trying to differentiate their organization. Of course, all companies at some point in time will need to transform at least partial to digital, but for every company that entails something completely different: while for some enterprises a digital transformation means taking their customers on a digital journey, others will aim to support their internal processes and adapt their manufacturing processes to gain an additional effectivity improvement of 5%. CYSSME tries to understand the needs and requirements of every single mic"