A-SIT PLUS GMBH

Their core work

A-SIT Plus is a Vienna-based applied security technology company focused on digital identity, electronic signatures, and secure cross-border e-government infrastructure. They build and evaluate the technical components that make eIDAS-compliant trust services work in practice — from federated cloud security to mobile identity wallets used across EU borders. Their work sits at the intersection of cryptography, public administration IT, and EU digital policy implementation. They function as a specialist technical arm supporting consortia that need deep expertise in secure authentication and trustworthy digital transactions.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their earliest H2020 work (SUNFISH, 2015-2017) centered on secure information sharing across federated private clouds — an infrastructure-security topic. By 2016-2019 (FutureTrust) the focus had shifted cleanly toward electronic trust services and eIDAS-compliant transactions. The most recent project, mGov4EU (2021-2023), consolidates this into user-centric, mobile, cross-border e-government built around the Single Digital Gateway and once-only principle — a clear trajectory from backend cloud security to citizen-facing digital identity.

They are positioning squarely inside the EU Digital Identity Wallet and Single Digital Gateway agenda, making them a relevant partner for any consortium touching mobile identity, once-only, or cross-border public services in the next 3-5 years.

How they like to work

A-SIT Plus consistently joins as a third party rather than coordinator or full beneficiary, which suggests they contribute specialist technical expertise under a larger parent or lead organization rather than running consortia. Across only three projects they have worked with 39 distinct partners in 15 countries, indicating a hub-like pattern of broad European exposure despite a narrow project count. Expect them to function as a focused technical contributor on identity and trust components, not a project manager.

Connected to 39 unique partners across 15 European countries despite only three projects, reflecting the pan-European nature of eIDAS and e-government consortia rather than a local footprint.

What sets them apart

A-SIT Plus is the commercial/applied extension of Austria's national Secure Information Technology Center ecosystem, which gives them direct line-of-sight to how eIDAS and Single Digital Gateway requirements translate into working code. Very few private companies combine this depth in trust services with recurring involvement in EU-level cross-border identity pilots. If a consortium needs a partner who has actually implemented eIDAS components in production contexts, they are a natural shortlist candidate.

Highlights from their portfolio

• mGov4EU
  Directly implements the Single Digital Gateway and once-only principle for mobile cross-border public services — the flagship agenda of current EU digital policy.
• FutureTrust
  A foundational eIDAS-era project building the trust service infrastructure that later projects (including mGov4EU) now build on.
• SUNFISH
  Early work on federated private cloud security that shows their technical roots before they specialized in identity and trust.