Sovereignty
Data and infrastructure can remain under European jurisdiction and national operational control.
European Cyber Defense and Security Infrastructure Consortium
Sovereign digital infrastructure for Europe’s most critical missions.
ECDSIC combines advanced cybersecurity technology, national telecommunications infrastructure and strategic operational capacity to strengthen defence, government and critical infrastructure across Europe.
01 / Mission
The strategic challenge
Europe’s critical systems need infrastructure built for sovereignty, continuity and control.
Defence organisations, public institutions and critical infrastructure operators increasingly depend on centralised technology environments outside European jurisdiction. ECDSIC brings together the technology, infrastructure and operational partners required to establish an independent European capability for secure data transfer, distributed storage and resilient digital operations.
Resilience
Distributed architecture reduces dependence on single systems, facilities and providers.
Security
Zero-trust processing, validation and protected distribution support high-security environments.
Interoperability
Modular interfaces support integration with existing defence, government and enterprise systems.
02 / Consortium
The operating structure
A consortium built around technology ownership and national-scale delivery capacity.
ECDSIC combines Citeel’s Phantera platform with telecommunications, hosting, logistics and operational infrastructure from leading Slovenian partners. The model links sovereign technology with organisations capable of supporting national and cross-border deployment.
Lead partner and technology owner
Citeel
Consortium coordination, Phantera development, cybersecurity architecture, intellectual property, international partnerships and programme leadership.
Infrastructure partner
Pošta Slovenije
National-scale logistics, digital services, infrastructure capacity and operational continuity.
Infrastructure partner
T-2
Fibre, fixed and mobile networks, cloud environments and data-centre capability.
Infrastructure partner
Telemach Slovenija
Broadband, mobile connectivity, network integration and high-availability operations.
03 / Capability
Technology foundation
Phantera provides a secure data layer for distributed, mission-sensitive environments.
Phantera is a modular platform for secure data processing, transfer and storage. It validates incoming data, divides it into protected fragments, distributes it across controlled nodes and records permissions and verification events through a tamper-evident ledger.
Protected from entry to authorised use
Data never travels
as a readable whole.
- 01
Validate
Reject malformed or unauthorised input.
Trusted input
- 02
Fragment
Split data into individually unreadable pieces.
No usable whole
- 03
Protect
Encrypt and bind policy to every fragment.
Policy protected
- 04
Distribute
Place fragments across independent controlled nodes.
No single target
- 05
Verify
Record integrity, ownership and access events.
Tamper evident
- 06
Reconstruct
Reassemble data only for an authorised request.
Controlled access
Deploy on your terms
On premisesSovereign cloudHybrid deployment
Secure data exchange
Controlled movement of sensitive data between authorised systems, environments and organisations.
Distributed storage
Protected fragments are placed across multiple nodes, reducing exposure to individual infrastructure failures.
Tamper-evident verification
Ownership, permissions and integrity events are recorded through a blockchain-based validation layer.
Modular integration
API and CLI access support integration with existing government, defence, telecom and enterprise platforms.
Deployment flexibility
The platform supports on-premises, sovereign-cloud and hybrid deployment models.
04 / Operational domains
Mission environments
Designed for sectors where compromise, interruption or foreign dependency carries strategic consequences.
01
Defence
Secure data exchange, resilient infrastructure and controlled deployment for sensitive operational environments.
02
Government
Sovereign storage, protected communications and auditable access for public institutions and national services.
03
Critical infrastructure
Distributed protection for energy, transport, logistics, utilities and essential services.
04
Telecommunications
Secure integration across national networks, data centres and high-availability communications infrastructure.
05
Financial systems
Resilient and auditable data handling for regulated institutions and critical financial operations.
06
Emergency and civil resilience
Infrastructure continuity and protected information exchange during crisis, disruption and recovery.
Strategic position
A European capability with the technology, infrastructure and institutional alignment required for scale.
01
Citeel leads the consortium and owns the core Phantera technology.
02
National telecommunications and infrastructure operators support delivery and deployment.
03
The operational prototype has demonstrated the complete platform workflow in a representative environment.
04
The consortium is structured for defence, government and critical-infrastructure programmes.
05
The architecture supports European jurisdiction, sovereign deployment and multi-provider resilience.
05 / Leadership
Programme leadership
Focused leadership across technology, operations, government engagement and programme execution.
NP
Nejc Paradiž
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Consortium leadership, strategy, international development, investor relations and government engagement.
BS
Brin Soko
Chief Technology Officer
Technical architecture, cybersecurity engineering, distributed systems and infrastructure integration.
OK
Oto Kern
Chief Operating Officer
Operations, governance, documentation, programme coordination and partner management.
BK
Boris Koprivnikar
Strategic Advisor
Public-sector integration, institutional coordination, national digital transformation and sovereignty strategy.
Strategic engagement
Engage with the consortium.
ECDSIC welcomes engagement with defence organisations, NATO member-state institutions, national infrastructure operators, technology partners and strategic programme stakeholders.
General contactinfo@ecdsic.com