TSSG leads EU Inco-Trust Workshop: Security, Privacy and Trust in Large-Scale Global Networks & Services as Part of the Future Internet

From 30 March ’09 until 01 April ’09, as part of the Framework Program 7 Inco-Trust project (http://www.inco-trust.eu), WIT-TSSG organised an international workshop in Madrid, Spain. The overall theme of the workshop was International Co-operation in Trustworthy Systems: Security, Privacy and Trust in Large-Scale Global Networks & Services as Part of the Future Internet.

The participants consisted of over 60 program management and researchers involved in Information Communications Technologies (ICT) and Trust, Security and Privacy from the EU, USA, Japan, Korea, Australia and Canada. The workshop was a success and the participants discussed together about the topics and research challenges that are required and will benefit from international collaboration in order to attain a trustworthy future Internet.

In addition to talks from the Governments program management perspective and technical keynote addresses, there were three working panel sessions dedicated to:
A. Dependability & Security of Future Large scale Networked Systems;
B. Privacy and Trust in the Information Society; and
C. Program Management Cooperation Mechanisms.

Within panel A, the issues addressed included Trust, Security and Privacy specifications for the design of architectures, protocols and environments that will constitute future large-scale and globally networked ICT systems. Panel B focused on key elements necessary for securing the applications and services operating across future large-scale networked systems, including trust management models and the articulation of security and privacy to reinforce trust, with emphasis on user-centric privacy enhancing technologies, mechanisms for accountability, liability, and monitoring, and a privacy-respecting naming and identity-management framework (of individuals, organisations and digital entities). Panel C comprised of governmental research program managers of the involved countries / regions to discuss organisational and practical cooperation aspects of their programs. This enabled a delineation between technical and non-technical issues in order to better focus on the options, possibilities and mechanisms for cooperative programs and collaborations to be explored.

More information on the workshop can be found at www.inco-trust.eu under the Workshops banner.