Nextcloud wins the Acteurs du Libre European Award 2023

Nextcloud has won the European Award of the Acteurs du Libre contest! This is a huge recognition for the community, the Nextcloud team, and the visionary leaders behind the project.

What is the Acteurs du Libre contest?

The Acteurs du Libre contest is part of the Open Source Experience event, which celebrates the achievements of Free Software companies, entrepreneurs, projects and associations. The contest awards six prizes every year, each honoring a different aspect of FOSS development, management or implementation: the Committed Public Service Award, the European Award in collaboration with APELL, the Business Development Award, the Best Open Source Strategy Award, the Open and Ethical Digital Award, and the Jury’s Special Award.

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Bring your own key

What is bring your own key (BYOK)?

Bring your own key (BYOK) is an innovative concept to allow public cloud users to keep control of the cryptographic keys used in the cloud to secure their data. With public cloud services exploding, BYOK is now supported by all major cloud services. BYOK enables public cloud users to generate their own high-quality master key locally and securely transmit the key to a cloud service provider (CSP) to protect data in multi-cloud environments. To generate and manage high-quality keys, BYOK uses FIPS and Common Criteria Certified Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) that the cloud user maintains locally or leases as a service.

BYOK enables organizations that migrate to the cloud to achieve:

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