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Workshops De. SIRE and De. FINE CNR, Pisa 25 th -27 th November, 2002

Workshops De. SIRE and De. FINE CNR, Pisa 25 th -27 th November, 2002 Ernst Basler + Partners Ltd. Zurich/Zollikon, Switzerland http: //www. ebp. ch Dr. Stefano Bruno and Daniel Bircher, Ernst Basler + Partners Ltd.

General Overview • Ernst Basler + Partners Ltd. is a planning, consulting and engineering

General Overview • Ernst Basler + Partners Ltd. is a planning, consulting and engineering company, based in Zurich. • The services range from the concept development to implementation and from the technical solutions to management consulting and strategy planning. • The seven Business Units are: Civil Engineering, Project Management, Infrastructure and Transport, Energy and Technology, Environment, Safety and Security, and Information Technology • About 20% of the projects are international 1

Process and Information Security The Business Field “Process and Information Security” is part of

Process and Information Security The Business Field “Process and Information Security” is part of the Business Unit “Safety and Security”. The activities include: • Projects covering dependability aspects of critical infrastructures • Support of and involvement in the Swiss information assurance community (constitution building, elaboration of concepts etc. ) • IT security concepts 2

Selected Activities And Projects • Development and application of methods for risk analysis for

Selected Activities And Projects • Development and application of methods for risk analysis for critical infrastructure sectors • IT-Simulation game “INFORMO 2001” • Elaboration of concepts for a national information sharing and analysis unit • Founding member of the Swiss foundation “Info. Surance” (a PPP project for dependability) • Swiss partner of the DDSI project • Elaboration of the „International Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Handbook“ (with Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) 3

Contacts Within Dependability Community Ernst Basler + Partners Ltd. has amongst others the following

Contacts Within Dependability Community Ernst Basler + Partners Ltd. has amongst others the following close contacts within the Swiss dependability community: • Swiss Federal Strategy Unit for Information Technology • Swiss Federal Office of Communication • Swiss Federal Office for National Economic Supply • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich • University for Technics and Architecture, Lucerne • Foundation Info. Surance 4

Research Areas For De. SIRE/De. FINE (I) Ernst Basler + Partners Ltd. suggests contributions

Research Areas For De. SIRE/De. FINE (I) Ernst Basler + Partners Ltd. suggests contributions for De. SIRE/De. FINE in the following four research areas: • A. Infrastructure vulnerabilities • B. Socio-economic studies • C. Cyber-crime and cyber-abuse • D. Training tools 5

Research Areas for De. SIRE/De. FINE (II) A. Infrastructure vulnerabilities • Methods for IT

Research Areas for De. SIRE/De. FINE (II) A. Infrastructure vulnerabilities • Methods for IT risk assessment (e. g. QPRA, FTRA), based on 30 years of in-house experience • Methods and models to assess and to simulate interdependencies of information infrastructures with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) • Practical risk analysis methods for the use in critical (information) infrastructure sectors 6

Research Areas for De. SIRE/De. FINE (III) B. Socio-economic studies • Behavioral studies regarding

Research Areas for De. SIRE/De. FINE (III) B. Socio-economic studies • Behavioral studies regarding aspects of trust and confidence in the Information Society • Behavioral studies regarding the use/non-use of IT security tools (virus protection, strong passwords etc. ), based on interviews 7

Research Areas for De. SIRE/De. FINE (IV) C. Cyber-crime and cyber-abuse • Conceptual and

Research Areas for De. SIRE/De. FINE (IV) C. Cyber-crime and cyber-abuse • Conceptual and organisational models and approaches for early warning capabilities and information sharing schemes • Development of models or trusted networks for information sharing • Conceptual research for cyber-crime databases and statistics (based on SIBIS results) • EU-related models for developing/strengthening public private partnerships (PPP) 8

Research Areas for De. SIRE/De. FINE (V) D. Training tools • Concepts for education

Research Areas for De. SIRE/De. FINE (V) D. Training tools • Concepts for education and training of dependability stakeholders • Establishment of a forum/platform for information sharing, common training facilities, e-learning etc. • Guideline/Handbook for simulation gaming for dependability key players 9

Contact Information Ernst Basler + Partners Ltd. Zollikerstrasse 65 CH-8702 Zollikon Phone + 41

Contact Information Ernst Basler + Partners Ltd. Zollikerstrasse 65 CH-8702 Zollikon Phone + 41 -1 -395 11 11 Fax + 41 -1 -395 12 34 Internet http: //www. ebp. ch Dr. Stefano Bruno Daniel Bircher E-Mail: stefano. bruno@ebp. ch E-Mail: daniel. bircher@ebp. ch 10