ICT-2007.1.4: Secure, dependable and trusted Infrastructures

Target outcome

1. Security and resilience in network infrastructures: building and preserving flexible, scalable and context-aware, secure and resilient architectures and technologies to enable dynamic management policies that ensure end-to-end secure transmission of data and services across heterogeneous infrastructures and networks, including dynamic networks of tiny insecure devices, and multiple provider, business and residential domains; real time detection and recovery capabilities against intrusions, malfunctions and failures;
   
   
2. Security and trust in dynamic and reconfigurable service architectures supporting assured and scale-free composition of services and service coalitions with managed operation across several administrative or business domains, enabling flexible business models;
   
   
3. Trusted computing infrastructures ensuring interoperability and end-to-end security of data and services; increased security and dependability in the engineering of software and service systems to ensure the design and development of trustworthy applications and services;
   
   
4. Identity management and privacy enhancing tools with configurable, contextdependent and user-controlled attributes in static and dynamically changing environments; trust policies for managing and assessing the risks associated to identity and private data.
   
   
5. Longer term visions and research roadmaps; metrics and benchmarks for comparative evaluation and open technology competitions, in support of certification and standardisation; international cooperation and co-ordination with developed countries; coordination with related national or regional programmes or initiatives and; coordination of FP7 projects addressing security, dependability, privacy and related ethical issues across different challenges and objectives of this work programme.

Expected Impact

• ICT users empowered to handle their digital identity and personal data and to protect their privacy, turning the European view on privacy into an economic advantage; strengthened trust in the use of networks, software and services for governments, businesses and consumers.
• A strong and competitive ICT security industry in Europe.
• Substantially improved security and dependability of networks and service infrastructures having a complexity and scale that are an order of magnitude greater than those of today’s infrastructures.
• Wider use of metrics, standards, evaluation and certification methods and best practices in security of networks, infrastructures, software and services.
  

Funding schemes a-d): CP, NoE; e) CSA

Indicative budget distribution 77 M€:

• CP 69 M€ of which a minimum of 24 M€ to IP and a minimum of 24 M€ to STREP;
  
• NoE 5 M€;
  
• CSA 3 M€