How can organizations securely share data and services without compromising control?
That’s not just the future. It’s what we’re building right now at SMARTY through our work on Decentralized Feature Extraction (DFE), it is led by CNIT.
The SMARTY project introduces Declarative Cooperation is a policy-driven framework that:
- Enables trusted collaboration between applications via hardware-secured attestation.
- Automates security governance through YAML-based policies (no manual oversight needed!).
- Protects sensitive data with TEEs (Trusted Execution Environments) even admins can’t access secrets.
Traditional access controls are rigid and prone to breaches. Declarative Cooperation offers:
- Zero-trust mTLS channels only pre-authorized systems can communicate.
- Self-generating certificates/keys—managed by SCONE’s Configuration Service (CAS).
- Scalable governance—policies support multi-party approval workflows (e.g., “Require 2 of 3 signers”).
The first release is expected soon and will be tested in SMARTY’s Telco use case (UC2), where it can boost performance and efficiency in modern network backends. This innovation brings intelligence closer to the source, enabling real-time AI readiness without centralizing all the work.
Stay tuned for more updates: https://www.smarty-project.eu
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