Related projects

  • Web Link SysSec

    From the SysSec Web site:

    “SysSec proposes to create a Network of Excellence in the field of Systems Security for Europe to play a leading role in changing the rules of the game. Capitalizing on the results of the recent FORWARD initiative and building on strong synergies with Industry and Policy makers, SysSec will work towards: creating a virtual center of excellence, to consolidate the Systems Security research community in Europe promoting cybersecurity education engaging a think-tank in discovering the threats and vulnerabilities of the Current and Future Internet, creating an active research roadmap in the area, and developing a joint working plan to conduct State-of-the-Art collaborative research.”

  • Web Link NESSOS

    From the NESSOS Web site:

    “The Network of Excellence on Engineering Secure Future Internet Software Services and Systems (NESSoS) aims at constituting and integrating a long lasting research community on engineering secure software-based services and systems.

    The NESSoS engineering of secure software services is based on the principle of addressing security concerns from the very beginning in system analysis and design, thus contributing to reduce the amount of system and service vulnerabilities and enabling the systematic treatment of security needs through the engineering process. In light of the unique security requirements the Future Internet will expose, new results will be achieved by means of an integrated research, as to improve the necessary assurance level and to address risk and cost during the software development cycle in order to prioritize and manage investments. NESSoS will integrate the research labs involved; NESSoS will re-address, integrate, harmonize and foster the research activities in the necessary areas, and will increase and spread the research excellence. NESSoS will also impact training and education activities in Europe to grow a new generation of skilled researchers and practitioners in the area. NESSoS will collaborate with industrial stakeholders to improve the industry best practices and support a rapid growth of software-based service systems in the Future Internet.

    The research excellence of NESSoS will contribute to increase the trustworthiness of the Future Internet by improving the overall security of software services and systems. This will support European competitiveness in this vital area.”

  • Web Link WebSand

    From the WebSand Web site:

    “The overall goal of the WebSand project is to empower Web application developers, hosters, and users in designing, implementing, and running secure applications. Developers and hosters may be empowered to develop and deploy secure Web applications on their application servers. Users could benefit from the project's results by transparently receiving a security platform for their applications on their clients. To achieve this goal, WebSand will define fine-grained security policies and apply a novel sandboxing technique to the application to enable a client-side enforcement of the given policies. WebSand aims at non-disruptively building upon existing Web application technologies where possible to allow a seamless, immediate adoption of results in existing and future Web applications.”

  • Web Link SecCord

    From the SecCord Web site:

    SecCord provides coordination and services for the Trust and Security (T&S) research programme and its projects. There are five inter-related threads to its work plan that correspond to the project objectives.

    1. Build on the current collaborations between the T&S projects, evolving the clustering activities, development of state-of-the-art ideas and knowledge, extending membership to other projects and groups with T&S needs, outreaching to legal , social and economic projects with a trust and security related interest.
    2. Conducting a detailed analysis of the work of the projects, demonstrate the dividends outputs and benefits– resulting from the investment in T&S research, providing evidence of valuable and meaningful results and potential impact.
    3. Provide greater visibility of T&S research programme through a high-profile annual conference and a T&S research web repository that provides a central focus and exchange for T&S research information and links; the goal is that these become a recognisable brand. Visibility and outreach will be extended by building on an already established community of interests to include relationships with industry and T&S initiatives of member states.
    4. Leverage the potential and impact of T&S project results by maintaining a catalogue and showcase of results, and by interpreting and matching them against use-cases of current and foreseen market needs covering a wide spectrum of social considerations –legal, economic, and personal.
    5. To provide context for the impact and visibility of the research programme, provide a strategic outlook of the emerging and developing T&S issues, challenges, requirements, and priorities, with attention given to legal, social, and economic concerns. Set up an expert Advisory focus group that includes external members to advise on key strategic issues and priorities. The Advisory focus group will consist of two sub-groups: academic focus group and industry oriented focus group
  • Web Link OWASP

    From the OWASP Web site:

    “The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a 501(c)(3) worldwide not-for-profit charitable organization focused on improving the security of software. Our mission is to make software security visible, so that individuals and organizations worldwide can make informed decisions about true software security risks.”

  • Web Link W3C

    From the W3C Web site:

    “The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. Led by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and CEO Jeffrey Jaffe, W3C's mission is to lead the Web to its full potential.”

    Many technologies developed at W3C, such as HTML, SVG, CSS, XML, RDF and several application APIs, have security aspects. The working groups in the Security Activity even have security as their main goal.

  • Web Link IAB

    From the IAB Web site:

    “The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) is a committee of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Its responsibilities include:

    • IESG Confirmation: The IAB confirms the IETF Chair and IESG Area Directors, from nominations provided by the IETF Nominating Committee.
    • Architectural Oversight: The IAB provides oversight of, and occasional commentary on, aspects of the architecture for the protocols and procedures used by the Internet.
    • Standards Process Oversight and Appeal: The IAB provides oversight of the process used to create Internet Standards. The IAB serves as an appeal board for complaints of improper execution of the standards process through acting as an appeal body in respect of an IESG standards decision.
    • RFC Series and IANA: The IAB is responsible for editorial management and publication of the Request for Comments (RFC) document series, and for administration of the assignment of IETF Protocol parameter values by the IETF Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
    • External Liaison: The IAB acts as representative of the interests of the IETF in liaison relationships with other organizations concerned with standards and other technical and organizational issues relevant to the world-wide Internet.
    • Advice to ISOC: The IAB acts as a source of advice and guidance to the Board of Trustees and Officers of the Internet Society concerning technical, architectural, procedural, and (where appropriate) policy matters pertaining to the Internet and its enabling technologies.
    • IRTF Chair: The IAB selects a chair of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) for a renewable two year term.”
  • Web Link IETF

    From the IETF Web site:

    “The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any interested individual. The IETF Mission Statement is documented in RFC 3935.”

    Many of the technologies developed by working groups of the IETF have security aspects. That is especially true of the groups in the Security Area.

  • Web Link FP7 - ICT projects in Trust and Security

    List of projects at CORDIS.