Coordination and support actions are needed to improve Europe’s industrial competitiveness in markets of information security and trustworthy ICT. By helping to coordinate Europe’s research activities of both academic and industry research organizations, and supporting the further development of a European network of industry and academic experts, this project will stimulate companies and researchers to identify joint challenges and to learn how to further support the development of the European information security market. First activity is mapping out of where ICT research is coming from in Europe , who is doing what from each organisation , department , research centre etc. Below is an example of an initial idea of what such a mapping will be like (this was a first attempt for the FIRE proposal writing phase), validation of such a mapping will be completed via interviews with relevant experts from each individual organisation to confirm their expertise. A similar database will be completed from an industry point of view in Europe (mapping out their specific challenges and needs). By completing this exercise, it will open up the gaps and challenges of taking research results to industry. To summarise the following main objectives will be focused on during the first 24 months of the FIRE project. • Mobilizing the information security industry to get involved in current and future trustworthy ICT projects which have been identified
• Identifying other security research competences and competence centres in Europe • Identifying gaps between security industry and trustworthy ICT research in Europe • Defining a structural approach and methodology to align research and industry’s needs
• Identifying security research topics based on gaps identified by the industry (examples: using data correlation techniques to prevent damages from cyberattacks, using sandboxing and virtualization techniques to overcome physingand malware challenges, technologies allowing the widespread deployment of Internet of things, challenges in social media, …) • Creating an inventory of topics, centers and experts and mapping the activities in the European landscape • Bringing together security industry and ICT industry’s experts to investigate the inventory and evaluate against their needs for their internal technology roadmaps and strategies Presentation Link: http://www.effectsplus.eu/files/2012/09/LSEC_FIRE_prop.pdf