EU working group on Information Infrastructure Interdependencies and Vulnerabilities

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EU working group on Information Infrastructure
Interdependencies and Vulnerabilities

• EU-US workshop, Dusseldorf, 1-2 December 2001
• Marc Wilikens
• Joint Research Centre of the EC
• Cybersecurity
• Marc.Wilikens_at_jrc.it

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Joint Research Centre

• EU-funded multi-disciplinary RD
• Institute for the Protection and Security of the
  Citizen (One of the 8 Institutes of the JRC)
• To provide research-based, systems-oriented
  support to EU policies for the protection of the
  citizen against economic and technological
  risk.
• Cyber-security is a principal concern
• Foster understanding of vulnerabilities and
  challenges
• Provide facilities for cross-border
  collaboration, specific testing and evaluation
  exercises.
• JRC partner in RD projects DRIVE, CTOSE, GUIDES

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Problems Areas


Attacks
Intrusions
Business continuity
Vulnerabilities of Information Infrastructure
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WG - Background

• European Dependability Initiative
• Preparatory studies during 1997-1998 Large-scale
  systems
• IST programme, FWP5
• Complexity and dependability study with N.
  Kyriakopoulos
• Interdependencies and Vulnerabilities in
  Information Infrastructures
• Workshop, Brussels, 27-28 March, 2001, Brussels
• Results (http//deppy.jrc.it)
• Report
• Working Group established (information exchange)
• A set of High-level RD challenges
• First meeting of the WG in Milan on 19-20
  November 2001

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Motivation

• General risk concerns arising from
• complexity and interconnections of
  infrastructures (systems-of-systems)
• Reliance of business and society on ICT and
  especially on open communications networks
• widening of threat base (malicious, accidental)
• In 2001, 100 increase of incidents and
  vulnerabilities reported to CERTs
• Not fully understood interdependencies
• Possibility of great disruptions
• Many actors and responsibilities
• New, unknown vulnerabilities?
• Cross-sector and International dimension of the
  problem, but take into account National
  initiatives (e.g. S, NL, UK, ..)

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Focusing RD

• Leverage on synergies between sectors and promote
  shared lessons
• Set up network to facilitate multi-disciplinary
  dialogue and establish an RD roadmap EU
  visibility policy support

Network (I3V working group)
EWIS
RM II
finance
EM
HC
Energy