International Co-operation in Trustworthy,
Secure and Dependable ICT infrastructures

INCO-TRUST will establish a core platform to facilitate productive collaboration and partnerships between researchers from the participating countries. Its goal will be to co-ordinate the multiple research efforts underway in the areas of cyber trust, security and dependability. This includes continuing and extending the already b collaborations made between the EU and the US researchers recently and widening the collaboration to include researchers in Australia, Japan, Canada and South Korea. The project will support the scoping and establishment of Working Groups comprised of experts focused on prioritising ICT TSD topics requiring mutual and beneficial international cooperation. As a starting point, based upon the outcomes of the first two workshops, working groups will be established to cover three levels as shown:

WG1 – Infrastructures level: it is envisaged this WG will focus particularly on the security of the large systems, not only of the networks, and taking into account of the interdependencies. This includes security of the current Internet and the design of the security of the future Internet, security of networks and wireless systems.
WG2 - Environmental level: it is envisaged this WG will focus on aspects related to the security of the applications, the services, the protection of the software property and data.
WG3 – User-based level: There are a number of user-based issues, which include the need to build mechanisms that guarantee privacy, traceability, anonymisation and use of pseudonyms of the legitimate users, while at the same enabling location, tracking and tracing of malevolent users at individual, group or organization levels. An important expected impact for the EU research programme is to address the socio-technical challenges while moving into a ubiquitous, mobile Information Society, with mixed mode environments, and continually evolving networked environments.

Transversal to each of the above Working Groups, ideas for Future TSD test-beds will be continuously reflected upon and reported by the participants.