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Future EU Research: IT Security Priorities Identified in new Study - Always Online Availability in Focus
April 2010 by ENISA
The EU’s ’cyber security’ Agency ENISA- The European Network and
Information Security Agency - has launched a new report concluding that
the EU should focus its future IT security research on five areas. This
points out the direction for future Framework Programme
The past decade has seen a revolution in the way we communicate. An
increasing number of services are available online. Consumers, service
providers, governments ; they all expect online services to be available
securely, at all times, in all places. This includes a perfectly
functioning communications infrastructure to support the demands of the
Digital Society. Moreover, the service and infrastructure components
will need to actively cooperate to provide a reliable environment for
increasingly complex, interdependent and mashed-up services. This report
focuses on the subject of availability resilience, and thus the research
into the technologies that improve the availability of online services,
i.e. resilience of data networks, as it lays the foundation for EU2020
strategy and the Digital Agenda for Europe
The report identifies industry needs, new trends and their impact on decision-makers and research institutes to the most relevant research areas of network and information security within the next three to five years.
The five IT security research areas identified are:
cloud computing
real-time detection and diagnosis systems
future wireless networks
sensor networks
supply chain integrity
The Executive Director of ENISA, Dr Udo Helmbrecht, states:"This report
gives the first direction of what the future IT security research
priorities should be for the EU in our opinion."
This report is also related to the study on ’Standardisation gaps
related to resilience
