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

INCO-TRUST Workshop 1

31 March – 1 April 2009, Madrid, Spain

(Welcome social event on 30 March 2009)

Please note that this is an Invitation Only Event

Background

In November 2006 and April 2007, two joint EU-US sponsored workshops on ‘Cyber Trust: System Dependability and Security’, were held to ascertain the common research priorities across EU and US researchers engaged in the areas of Trust, Security and Dependability (TSD). In addition, a number of Researchers from Japan, Australia and Canada also participated in these events. The workshops proved very beneficial in their mission of identifying and scoping research areas that require and will benefit from international collaboration. The Workshop reports for these events can be found at the following sites:

Workshop 1: Dublin, Ireland, November 2006 

Workshop 2: Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States, April 2007

These workshops and the co-operations formed during this process led to a EC FP7 project entitled International Co-operation in Trustworthy, Secure and Dependable ICT infrastructures (INCO-TRUST1) on secure, dependable and trusted information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructures2 and partnerships. The principal objective of INCO-TRUST is to formalise these co-operations with a framework based on mutual interests and capabilities and to branch out and increase the coverage areas to other countries in addition to the US including Japan, Australia, Canada and South Korea.

The overall theme of the first workshop will be International Co-operation in Trustworthy Systems: Security, Privacy and Trust in Large-Scale Global Networks & Services as Part of the Future Internet. The workshop has the following core objectives:

1. To bring together pertinent members of the International research communities within the ICT TSD domain to engage in dialogue and stimulate concrete collaborative research actions relating to security, privacy and trust in the future Internet. The driver is to ensure that the EU's FP7 call for R&D proposals and the respective international, national and regional research work programs meaningfully address the necessary international technological implications when developing trustworthy global ICT systems.

2. To bring together relevant research program managers and interested stakeholders from the involved countries with the aim of discussing options and possibilities for co-operative programs and collaborations.

3. To discuss, align and agree common-interest priority topics for future programs and project-building with the intent that subsequent calls for proposals contain mutually beneficial themes. Sessions will be designed to identify a short list of key common-interest areas to pursue as proposals for the coming proposal calls and/or in defining future calls. The sessions will identify open research issues, cross-cutting links, and related infrastructural implications and give input for road-mapping of possible research areas for a joint EU-International collaboration.

The workshop will be structured around three panels as defined below. Speakers will be invited from EU/US/Japan/Australia/Canada and Korea (including university, government research, and industry research participants) to lay out the technical challenges and priorities where international cooperation would be meaningful to develop.

Panel A: Dependability & Security of Future Large scale Networked Systems. The issues to be addressed in this panel include the elaboration of TSD specifications for the design of architectures, protocols and environments that will constitute future large-scale and globally networked ICT systems. Specifically these include and focus on the upcoming future internet, cloud computing, the “Internet of things”3 with mixed mode environments consisting of diverse computing, communication & storage elements, and global e-Service infrastructures. The desired characteristics of dynamic, adaptive, scale-free, autonomic control are attractive in abstraction, though as global scale systems develop, heterogeneity (in design, resource types, operational policies, etc.) is often the pragmatic key attribute making systematic end-to-end TSD a challenge. The panel will endeavour to address both design and realization challenges for TSD in “global-scale” ICT systems. Instructions for Session can be found here.

Panel B: Privacy and Trust in the Information Society. Lack of trust is one of the main barriers to the establishment of a secure and dependable Information Society. This can be a lack of trust in the cyber-infrastructure, due to frequent attacks or fears about the design of digital systems. It is also caused by concerns about privacy, as well as by the difficulty in modelling trust relationships among digital entities and between humans and digital entities. The panel will focus 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). Instructions for Session can be found here.

Panel C: Program Management Cooperation Mechanisms. The purpose of this panel is for the research program managers and other interested participants of the involved countries / regions to discuss organisational and practical cooperation aspects of their programs. This will enable 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.

Final Plenary Session. The workshop will conclude with a final session of open discussion on the way forward. In this session, the findings of the three previous panel sessions will be summarised, including both technical challenges and collaboration mechanisms, and some issues for further discussion will be re-opened for concluding on the focus and next steps.

The venue of the Workshop will be the Hotel Husa Princesa , Princesa 40, 28008 Madrid, Spain.

Special rates have been organised for attendees. Please read the accompanying document that contains the full Terms of Reference, Program, Venue and Registration.