TSSG hosts meeting of SEINIT project

The TSSG is hosting a plenary meeting of the SEINIT project this week, involving 25 participants from 13 partners.

SEINIT stands for "Security Expert Initiative". It is a collaborative research project funded by the European Commission under the 6th Framework Programme, in the Information Society Technologies (IST) area. The project runs for two years, from December 2003 to November 2005. For further information, see www.seinit.org

The three main high-level objectives of SEINIT are:

• Providing a trusted and dependable security framework, ubiquitous, working across multiple devices, heterogeneous networks, organisation independent and centred around an end-user


• Maintaining an adequate security level without infringing a user's right to privacy


• Developing a security approach "closer to real life"

The main technological work covers:

• design and development of new components for this security framework


• integration of these components with trials on suitable assessment platforms


• deployment of anomaly detection systems to detect security breaches


• IPv6 issues


• mobility issues


• specific security issues of ambient intelligence or smart spaces