Extended Description

As the Information Society continues to develop and to grow, there is a very strong need to develop “smart”, i.e. intelligent and user-friendly, ICT security environments that take full account of the values of liberty, democracy and privacy in our societies, while providing necessary Trust, Security and Dependability.

ThinkTrust will begin the process of mapping or modelling these new ICT environments with the goal to define new areas of work in ICT Security Research, further EU's strategic thinking and positioning in the field, and influence the subsequent ICT technology developments in the coming years. For this, ThinkTrust will set up an ICT Security Research Advisory Board that will bring together the opinions and requirements of a comprehensive range of stakeholders with regard to trust, security and dependability issues in emerging ICT environments.

The project and its Advisory Board will be supported by targeted working groups from the stakeholder and research community that will address focussed issues and questions. It is envisaged that initially, the working groups will centre on three prominent and complementary aspects of ICT trust, security and dependability: (i) Technology, covering the conceptual and implementation provisioning for trust, security and dependability; (ii) Governance, covering the non-technical needs and concerns, from the social and economic viewpoints, from the human and personal to the organisational and legal/governmental; and (iii) Applications, covering areas of trustworthy services and applications, their composability and scalability, inter-relationships and infrastructures, and aggregate domain groupings such as finance, health, commerce, and the Internet itself.

Contact: Ms Zeta Dooly
CORK ROAD
WATERFORD
Ireland
E-mail: zdooly@tssg.org
Phone: + 353 513 029 43
Fax: +353 513 021 50
Web site: http://www.tssg.org/people/zdooly/ or http://thinktrust.tssg.org/