Trust building Data Exchange technology

Trusted identities

With state-of-the-art, secure onboarding and vetting processes, the orchestrator of the Data Marketplace or Data Hub can keep control over who has access to the data exchange ecosystem, from organizations down to individuals. Access and authorizations can be revoked anytime through the orchestrator console.
Dawex Data Exchange Solution supports identity federation and SSO for authentication & authorization via OpenID Connect, industrializing users onboarding and lifecycle management.
The Data Exchange Solution can interoperate with solutions providing Self Sovereign Identities, making use of Decentralized Identifiers (DID), and can connect with Identity Wallets providing verifiable credentials for natural and legal persons.

Granular and extensive data product visibility settings are available to data providers. Offerings can be restricted to select organizations or individuals, exposed to all platform participants, or even exposed publicly for marketing objectives. Private sub-groups can be set to expose & exchange data between participants.
Data transactions inherit by default the data product visibility for both data providers and data acquirers, facilitating compliance and confidentiality. Users can customize these visibility settings to determine exactly who within their team can view them.
Group, role and user access permissions settings are supported through One-Time-Passwords (OTPs) and Role Based Access Control (RBAC).
Data security and privacy-by-design which means that all data stored on the solution is encrypted at rest and in transit, and participants or the orchestrator can only read the metadata associated and available in the data catalog.

Data sovereignty

With Dawex solution, data providers keep full sovereignty over their data:

Choice of managed or decentralized modes for technical data exchanges.
In decentralized mode, the data stays in the data provider storage systems, and transits directly from the data provider to the data acquirer once the data transaction is approved.
In managed mode, the data also stays in the data provider storage systems, and is never duplicated in the Data Exchange solution infrastructure, except for files that may be uploaded per the data provider’s decision.
Full control over data offerings visibility in the data ecosystem.
Extensive access rights and data transaction approval capabilities, enabling to define who accesses the data, under which conditions, for which purpose.

Preset licenses, reusable and configurable, allow the data provider to precisely define terms and conditions of use for public/private, open/commercial, or free/paid data exchanges.
Personal data is managed in compliance with GDPR and non-European personal data regulations such as CCPA and APPI or others. Specific workflows are provided to declare, manage and mask such data all along the transaction process.
An API connection to Authorization & Consent Managers systems is provided, ensuring for each data request that the data acquirer benefits from the consent to access and use the data product.
Dawex is working on implementing “compliance as code” through Open Digital Right Langage (ODRL) to define and enforce policies using code that automatically checks that the use of the content is compliant with the defined policies.
In decentralized mode, the Data Exchange Solution interoperates with data space connectors such as EDC data space components, and synchronizes the policies and access rights between the Data Exchange Solution and the EDC connector in local information systems.

Traceability

Data providers can monitor and trace accesses relative to their own data products, and Data acquirers can monitor their transactions and consumption. The Data Exchange Solution from Dawex provides a wide range of tools for data providers to trace data transactions and the accesses to data products, thus reinforcing the level of trust and compliance delivered by the solution.

Through the orchestrator console, the orchestrator can monitor activities and perform deep-dive audits on past activities. Data privacy is fully preserved as the orchestrator has never access to the data itself.

Participants benefit from auditability mechanisms that know exactly who accessed which content and what actions were performed, ensuring full traceability of activities within the ecosystem.

Trusted Data Transaction —Fostering the emergence of data exchange standards

As an expert in data exchange, Dawex actively contributes to moving the market forward, participating in discussions at European and international level on data policy and governance such as the European Commission, the World Economic Forum and the G7 Summit, engaging with governing bodies to accelerate the definition of data exchange regulations and frameworks.

As such, Dawex co-proposed with German research organization Fraunhofer and Dutch research organization TNO, a Trusted Data Transaction pre-standardization workshop program under the umbrella of the recognized organization European Committee for Standardization. Gathering experts and fervent numerous organizations, associations and corporations, including the European Commission, Fraunhofer ISST, Dawex, TNO, IDSA, BDVA, Gaia-X, Fiware Foundation, Microsoft, Orange, EDF and Airbus.

On July 1, 2025, the European Commission has published in its final form a Standardization Request for a harmonized European Standard (hEN) on Trusted Data Transaction, under the umbrella of a European Trusted Data Framework, among other requests.