Customer Reference Story: AWO Rheingau-Taunus and enclaive

Introduction

AWO Rheingau-Taunus Soziale Arbeit gGmbH, a key player in delivering essential social services, faced complex challenges in managing secure communication and collaboration across a diverse team of employees and volunteers. enclaive’s confidential cloud solution, powered by Nextcloud, provided the ideal answer to their needs.

The Challenge

Managing a mix of full-time employees and volunteers, AWO needed a platform that allowed for secure communication, data sharing, and video conferencing, while remaining user-friendly. Their requirements included:

• Secure, GDPR-compliant messaging, email, and file storage.
• Easy-to-use tools for volunteers with limited technical skills.
• Reliable data protection to manage sensitive personal information.
• An IT solution that reduced the burden on volunteer staff with limited technical expertise.

The Solution

enclaive deployed Nextcloud on a confidential cloud infrastructure, hosted in Germany. This setup provided a secure, all-in-one platform for messaging, file sharing, and video conferencing, all while ensuring that data remained protected and GDPR-compliant.

What is Nextcloud and Confidential Nextcloud by enclaive?

Nextcloud is an open-source collaboration platform that integrates messaging, file sharing, and video conferencing into a secure, user-friendly environment. It is widely used for GDPR-compliant communication and data management.

enclaive takes Nextcloud to the next level with Confidential Nextcloud, which is hosted on a confidential cloud infrastructure. This enhanced version isolates sensitive data within secure enclaves, protecting it from unauthorized access—even from cloud administrators. By utilizing hardware-based security measures, Confidential Nextcloud by enclaive ensures data privacy and security, making it the ideal solution for organizations like AWO that handle sensitive personal information.

Key benefits for AWO:

• Unified Collaboration: Nextcloud streamlined communication across staff and volunteers, integrating messaging, email, file sharing, and video conferencing into one easy-to-use platform.
• Confidential Cloud Security: By using enclaive’s confidential cloud, AWO could protect sensitive data with cutting-edge enclave-based security, ensuring it remained inaccessible to unauthorized parties, including cloud administrators.
• GDPR Compliance: Hosting Nextcloud in a German-based confidential cloud gave AWO peace of mind, knowing their data was safe, compliant, and secure.
• Minimal Maintenance: With automatic updates and security monitoring, AWO’s volunteer IT staff could focus less on platform upkeep and more on supporting their community.

Results

AWO now enjoys a secure, reliable collaboration platform that scales as their organization grows. By trusting enclaive’s confidential cloud solution, AWO can focus on what matters most: delivering social services to those who need them, without worrying about data privacy and security.

For more detailed technical insights, please contact us, as these require an NDA.

About AWO

The AWO Rheingau-T aunus Soziale Arbeit gGmbH, a non-profit subsidiary of the AWO Kreisverband Rheingau-Taunus, provides a wide array of social services, including child care, youth services, and community support within the region. With more than 300 employees ,they are part of AWO, one of Germany's major welfare organizations with more than 250.000 employees and additional 70.000 volunteers, which supports vulnerable populations and promotes values of solidarity and social equality. Their efforts are facilitated by a mix of full-time staff and volunteers across numerous locations and programs. While specific employee counts aren't available on their website, AWO affiliates typically employ a significant workforce due to the extensive range of services offered across multiple facilities and schools in the Rheingau-T aunus area. More details can be found on their official site.

About enclaive

enclaive GmbH, an award-winning start-up based in Berlin, Germany, helps businesses protect their sensitive data and applications in untrusted cloud environments through Confidential Computing. Its comprehensive, multi-cloud operating system allows for Zero Trust security by encrypting data in use and shielding applications from both the infrastructure and solution providers.

With enclaive, businesses can confidently build, test, and deploy a wide range of cloud applications, all while maintaining complete control over their confidential information. enclaive’s goal is to provide a universal, cloud-independent technology for enclaving sophisticated multi-cloud applications, that can be deployed with confidence and ease.

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