Paris cybersecurity SME specializing in trust frameworks and security architecture for cross-domain automated systems across automotive, aerospace, and energy.
Internet of Trust is a Paris-based cybersecurity SME whose name signals their core mission: engineering trust as a technical property in digital and automated systems. Their H2020 track record places them at the intersection of cybersecurity and cyber-physical systems, contributing security architecture expertise to cross-domain automated environments spanning automotive, aerospace, energy, and manufacturing. In SECREDAS, they worked alongside major European automotive and aerospace players to address reliable and dependable security for automated systems that operate across multiple domains simultaneously. Their participation in CPS4EU as a third party further confirms a strategic focus on the architecture and governance of large-scale cyber-physical ecosystems rather than single-vertical security products.
SECREDAS directly addresses cyber security for cross-domain reliable dependable automated systems, and CPS4EU covers security considerations within European cyber-physical infrastructure.
CPS4EU explicitly targets system architecture for cyber-physical systems across automotive, aerospace, energy, and manufacturing domains.
SECREDAS focuses on reliable and dependable automated systems — a direct match with the company's stated mission of building trust into digital infrastructure.
CPS4EU keywords explicitly list automated driving, aerospace automation, energy automation, and manufacturing automation as application domains.
Internet of Trust entered H2020 in 2018 through SECREDAS with a focus squarely on cybersecurity for automated systems — the security layer of cross-domain dependable platforms. By 2019, their second engagement shifted the frame: CPS4EU brought in a broader systems architecture perspective, with keywords covering value chains, system design, and multi-sector CPS deployment across automotive, aerospace, energy, and manufacturing. With only two projects and an empty keyword set in the early period, the evolution is limited in depth, but the direction is clear — from narrow security contributions toward broader CPS architecture and cross-sector industrial automation.
Internet of Trust appears to be broadening from project-level security contributions toward strategic involvement in the architecture of European cyber-physical systems — a positioning that would make them relevant to any consortium needing security expertise embedded from the design stage.
Internet of Trust has never led an H2020 project — they enter as participant or third party, which is typical of specialist SMEs that bring focused expertise rather than consortium management capacity. Despite only two projects, they have been exposed to 111 unique partners across 17 countries, a direct result of joining very large pan-European consortia like SECREDAS and CPS4EU. This pattern suggests they are accustomed to operating within complex multi-partner structures and can integrate their security or trust-framework expertise into large collaborative programs without needing to drive them.
Though active in only two projects, Internet of Trust has connected with 111 unique consortium partners across 17 countries — a consequence of joining two flagship European programs with broad cross-national membership. Their network is pan-European in reach, with no discernible geographic concentration beyond their Paris base.
Internet of Trust occupies a rare niche: a dedicated trust and security SME that works explicitly across vertical silos — automotive, aerospace, energy, and manufacturing — rather than serving a single industry. Most cybersecurity SMEs specialize in one domain; this company's H2020 record shows deliberate cross-domain positioning. For consortium builders needing security expertise that doesn't have to be re-explained for every sector context, that breadth is a genuine differentiator.
