Workshops De SIRE and De FINE CNR Pisa
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 -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