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

The objective of WP2 will be the establishment of the core platform to facilitate productive collaboration and partnerships between researchers from the participating countries. Its goal is to co-ordinate the multiple research efforts underway in the areas of cyber trust, security and dependability. This includes continuing and extending the already strong collaborations made with the US researchers recently and widening collaboration with researchers in Australia , Japan , Canada and South Korea. The WP 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:

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 - Users 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 Testbeds will be continuously reflected upon and explored by the participants.

The deliverables of WP2 consist of mainly visitation activities, reporting on these visits and meeting and workshop preparation activities in WP2 tasks, and the organisation of Working Group meetings to coincide with the project workshops, as feasible. One approach could be to synchronise the meetings/workshops with key International conferences to enhance participation and dissemination impact.

In the first semester of the project, within WP2, the project will concentrate on building up the contacts in the participating North American and Asia-Pacific countries for the WP2 working groups. In this context, under the direction of WP2 leader, Prof. Neeraj Suri This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it of Technische Universität Darmstadt, the project will start by making contacts with the key stakeholders in all the project regions in order to plan our travel for visitation trips of the project.

In 2008, we are envisaging an Australian trip in February ‘08, two trips to the United States (March '08 to the NSF Cybersecurity PI event and a more comprehensive visitation later in the year) and an Asian trip ( Japan and South Korea ) in May '08. These are the initial focus areas and the project will expand to other countries such as Canada , Taiwan, … as appropriate.