Security and Safety SIB Council(SIB-SS)

Keywords:

Public Safety, Data/Online Security,

Scope:

The e-Security and Safety SIB entity is focused on identification of key challenges in science, research and development, business and policy making in the areas important to e-Security and Safety. It aims to bring together the key industry players, top scientists, and policy makers to devise and discuss the strategies to meet those challenges. The e-Security and Safety SIB scope consists of two domains:

• Global Safety Communication and Information systems
• Information and communication systems and networks security

Key-Challenges:

• Future e-Security and Safety standards
• International coordination of research and development efforts in e-Security and Safety
• Future markets for and investments in e-Security and Safety

Global safety communication and information systems domain:

• Future public safety communication and information systems
• ICT for critical infrastructure protection and environmental monitoring and protection

Network centric public safety and environment protection Information and communication systems and networks security domain:

• Trust in future networks
• Autonomous communication, remote management machine-to-machine communication security

Mission:

Identification of scientific and research challenges in e-Security and Safety and defining high level recommendations toward scientific and industry forums. Providing input toward strategy and decision making. Establish liaisons with public organization, other institution standardization institutions.

Methodology:

The e-Security and Safety SIB entity will organize regular top level invited meetings with SIB Guiding Council members and experts to identify and consolidate the grand challenges that drive the work of respective technology themes. The e-Security and Safety SIB entity will further distill high level recommendations towards scientific and industry forums as well as policy bodies as to the necessary actions to meet certain challenges. It serves as a strategy level board for inputting directly into the decision making process of industry and policy making, including the respective funding agencies within the EU and worldwide as appropriate.

The e-Security and Safety SIB entity is part of ICST and will work in close cooperation with EU entities and initiatives such as the Trust, Security and Dependability working group of the NESSI Technology platform (http://www.nessi-europe.com/), the PCSE Forum (www.publicsafetycommunication.eu) and other national and international forums and institutions. It will keep a regular exchange of information and ideas with the PSC user community in PSCE representing governmental and user organizations.

Objectives:

• Identification of scientific and research challenges in e-Security and Safety and defining high level recommendations toward scientific and industry forums. Providing input toward strategy and decision making; Promotion and establishing industry-research partnership collaboration programs; Establishing liaisons with public organization, other institution standardization institutions; Transfer scientific results in the field of information and communication security into the economy.

Organisational structure:

The organizational structure of the SIB is presented on the Fig. 1. It consists of SIB organising committee, work groups (WG) for the business part of SIB and thematic networks (TN) for the scientific part of the SIB and secretariat.

• The e-Security and Safety SIB is part of SIB GC. The e-Security and Safety SIB Chairs coordinate their activities with the relevant people on scientific and business issues.Thee-Security and Safety SIB establishes cooperation with other ICST thematically driven domains that could overlap with the SIB activities/scope and could be the part of different SATs. The e-Security and Safety SIB could establish a secretariat that will support it on practical matters such as organization of meetings, web site update and documentation handling.

e-Security and Safety SIB Organising Committee

The e-Security and Safety SIB organising committee is the central collective discussion and decision making group of SIB representing the key stockholders and interest groups. The committee is lead by the SIB Chairs. The e-Security and Safety SIB organising committee includes the two subcommittees for:

• Global Safety Communication and Information systems domain;
• Information and communication systems and networks security domain.

The sub-committees are lead by SIB co-chairs. The SIB organising subcommittee meetings have separate or joint meetings that depend on meetings scopes and agendas. The organising committee consist of SIB chairs, WGs leaders , representatives of user communities, research funding agencies, EC Scientific Networks coordinators and experts.

Fig.1. e-Security and Safety SIB Organizational Structure

e-Security and Safety SIB Steering committee

SIB Chairs

Global Safety Communication and Information systems domain
Christian Bonnet
Adrian Boukalov

Information and communication systems and networks security domain
Peng Liu
Andreas Schmidt

Industrial WG for Safety Domain
Chair: Walter Legrand
Co-chair: Vania Conan

Thematic Scientific Networks
Safety domain
Security domain

Public Safety Communications User Community Chair
Safety domain

Research funding Chair

Secretariat

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATION (IRPSC)

Description:

Growing threats and increasingly also failures due to complexity may compromise the security and resilience of network and service infrastructures. Applications and services require security of data handling and we need new security architectures and scalable and interoperable security policies for this. There is a need to guarantee end-to-end security in data communications and storage, including identity management and authentication. Moreover, we need technology to enable network security monitoring and tracing and to assess the trustworthiness of infrastructures and services. It must ensure the protection of personal data and privacy and to properly assign liability and risks, together with the appropriate governance models needed to do so. There is a need to guarantee robustness, resilience, trust and security compatible with networks and software service platforms reaching a complexity and scale that are an order of magnitude greater than those of today infrastructures, which do not have such features built in from the outset

Global safety communication and information systems are currently using a number of diverse and competing technologies. The global safety market is mainly based on governmental funding with high level of fragmentation and long procurement cycle. The technological diversities create interoperability problems at different levels that reduce efficiency of emergency operations; increases further the market fragmentation and equipment costs. It is important in the early research stages by establishing efficient research industry partnership to consider the development of interoperable and harmonized technologies.

Due to the increased importance and interest in security and safety there is a substantial number of established national and international research projects in this domain. However these projects have low level of collaboration and information exchange. The lack of coordination reduces the efficiency of research in safety domain. Europe is missing internationally synchronized road map and technology platform in global safety communication and information systems.

The global safety communication and information systems are becoming a vital element of critical infrastructure protection, road safety networks and often considered as an important element of national security infrastructure.

The dialog and collaboration with authorities and user communities to consider private technical and operational requirements of public safety is very important for research and development in this domain.

The e-Security and Safety SIB is part of the ICST and will work in close cooperation with the PCSE Forum(www.publicsafetycommunication.eu) and other national and international forums and institutions.. It will keep a regular exchange of information and ideas with the PSC user community in PSCE representing governmental and user organizations.

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SIB Overview:

Growing threats and increasingly also failures due to complexity may compromise the security and resilience of network and service infrastructures. Applications and services require security of data handling and we need new security architectures and scalable and interoperable security policies for this. There is a need to guarantee end-to-end security in data communications and storage, including identity management and authentication. Moreover, we need technology to enable network security monitoring and tracing and to assess the trustworthiness of infrastructures and services. It must ensure the protection of personal data and privacy and to properly assign liability and risks, together with the appropriate governance models needed to do so.

The global safety communication and information systems are becoming increasingly important. These systems have to consider the private requirements of public safety authorities and users that are the part of several established international forums. There is a global challenge to increase international interoperability of these systems at different levels. Research activities in the safety domain are missing information exchange and collaboration that should be element of internationally harmonized technology road map and technology platform for global safety. The integration of research efforts at industry and research communities in the key areas such as internationally federated testing facilities, heterogeneous networks and network centric operations are the key challenges.