Digital Trust & Security

Digital Trust & Security Working Group

Jean-Pierre Tual, WP President - GEMALTO

“2009 has been a successful year in developing cooperation with several French and European clusters. Among them, the INTERREG project “Signature”, that involves four European clusters, will stimulate SMEs for leading international collaborative research and innovation projects.

In 2010, we will continue this effort, focusing on the consolidation of these established links.

The challenges of this Working Group are to provide secure sys¬tems: Security of critical infrastructures (transportation, energy, decision-making centres, leisure sites...) and Security of infor¬mation systems (e-gov, e-commerce, communication, digital ID...)"

New Challenges

Citizens, companies, institutions, policy-makers and governments are facing a new set of risks (Seveso, health, natural, terrorism and cyber-terrorism, organised crime...) amplified by the major changes of our society: development of megacities; widespread e-commerce and e-government, globalization of trade and services. These risks are related to:

• The concentration and mobility of large groups of peo-ple (public places, railway stations, airports) Example: 3 billion passengers transit annually in the 30 largest airports in the world

• The growing dependence of society on the technical infrastructure and networks (in the areas of health, industry, transport, trade, finance...)

• Dematerialisation of activities and relationships in the form of electronic exchanges (trade, finance, etc...). Their development is based entirely on the ability of technologies used to create confidence among operators and users.

These security risks cannot be treated without signifi-cant innovations in technology and software architec¬ture of large complex systems.

The Digital Trust & Security Working Group within SYSTEMATIC

• R&D Financed Projects: 67
• 144 partners including: 86 SMEs - 37 Large companies - 21 Research institutes and universities
• Total Investment: 284,6 M€

The Digital Trust & Security Working Group is positioned on four technology areas, called “Development Axes”:

• Security Systems for goods and people
• Physical security technologies
• Trusted digital systems
• Digital trust technologies

Jean-Louis SZABO, WG Vice-President - CEA

Alexandre PIGEON, Head of Digital Trust & Security Thematic Group - SYSTEMATIC

Steering Committee Members