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Thursday, 29-04-2010, 04:56 pm

Future EU Research on IT-Security

By: Dr. Holger Muehlbauer

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.

 

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.”

For full report:  http://www.enisa.europa.eu/act/res/technologies/procent

 

This report is also related to the study on ‘Standardisation gaps related to resilience’ (http://www.enisa.europa.eu/act/res/technologies/std/), which together provides a comprehensive view on current needs for resilient technologies.

For interviews:
Ulf Bergstrom, Spokesman, ENISA, press(at)enisa.europa.eu,
Mobile: +-30-6948-460143,
Slawek Gorniak, Security Expert, slawomir.gorniak(at)enisa.europa.eu,
Mobile: +30-6970-015163.

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