Cristina Leone

Finmeccanica, Product Policy

ICT systems are increasingly important to daily life and to business operations. ICT is allowing to address Europe’s major socio-economic challenges in areas such as health, energy, transport, manufacturing, environment, finance, government services, education, in ways that were impossible, and in many cases not believable, even a few years ago. The dependence on ICT has continued to grow and consequently the priority attached to information and communications security become higher and higher.

The security in ICT has a double implication, by one hand Europe needs to secure the information and communication networks (and associated data) that are core elements, for example, in critical infrastructures operations, by another hand ICT can supply security in borders protection missions, logistic and supply chain operations, crisis management, etc. providing the technologies for interoperability and connectivity to enable systems to work across different authorities and countries.

The purpose of the presentation is to provide an overview of recent European research initiatives in the field of security related to ICT in the meanings above described and to illustrate how those initiatives involve all the stakeholders and foster the construction of a dialogue between Industry, Academia, Users, Member States and EC.