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-# Emerald project
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+# Emerald project
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+This is the Gitlab group for sharing the code of the [Emerald project](https://www.emerald-he.eu/). 
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+EMERALD’s mission is to provide a user-friendly framework to help stakeholders in the cybersecurity field efficiently manage certifications, enhancing the security and effectiveness of cloud service usage. The proposed EMERALD environment will be the foundation for defining a new service for assisting the certification process that we named Certification-as-a-Service (CaaS).
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+## Structure
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+the group is divided into the following subgroups:
+- public: contains the public code of the project
+- private: contains the private code of the project
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+## Enroll
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+To enroll in the project, follow the instructions in the [public/enroll](https://git.code.tecnalia.com/emerald/public/enroll/-/blob/master/README.md) repository.