ICT Trust and Security

PUBLIC CONSULTATION: Horizon 2020 - The Challenge Of Providing Cybersecurity

The Trust and Security Unit at DG CNECT has started with the process of identifying the orientation for trustworthy ICT research, development and innovation in the upcoming Framework Program for Research H2020. In preparation of the consultation with the constituency at large the unit organized two workshops on "Horizon 2020: The Challenge of Providing Cybersecurity". The objective of the workshops were, to discuss the challenges, technological gaps and necessary research directions related to cybersecurity, as well as the best suited instruments to implement the tasks. The report addressing the industrial perspective and the report addressing the societal perspective of the workshops are a guide to help further discussions. if you want to contribute to the discussion please fill in the questionnaire (Word 68KB) and send it back to our functionnal mailbox. Depending on the feedback received we will plan the next steps to define the orientations for cybersecurity, privacy and trust activities in the Societal Challenge "Secure Societies" of H2020.

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PUBLIC CONSULTATION: Horizon 2020 - The Challenge Of Providing Cybersecurity

The primary mission of the Unit "Trust and Security" (H4) of the European Commission's Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CONNECT) is to support and coordinate research for the development of trustworthy ICTs that respect citizens' rights and protect their privacy and personal data. The ambition is to coherently address security, trust and privacy from a technological, economic, legal and social perspective, in an effort to ensure innovation and economic growth in a society providing freedom and security for its citizens.

Research priorities are strongly related to the development of the Future Internet and target: trustworthy network and service infrastructures, user-centric identity and privacy management and technologies for secure software development, trusted computing, cryptology and advanced biometrics. Support to interoperability and standardisation is given when appropriate, to strengthen the societal impact of the technology results.

Particular attention is paid to the horizontal aspects of trust and security in ICT, by emphasising multidisciplinary research and the relevance of aspects like usability, societal acceptance and economic and legal viability of the research results.

To achieve our objectives we work in three directions:

For more information about our activities and projects, please refer to our Brochure on ICT Trust & Security Research in FP7 and to our pages for Projects.

We work to increase the impact of trust and security research projects and their results through focused clustering activities, creating synergies between projects and increasing collaboration. Under Unit F5 such clustering activities are coordinated via Effectsplus . For more information see also http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/security/effectsplus_en.html.

General information on how to prepare, submit and manage a project proposal is available at http://cordis.europa.eu/participating/home_en.html.