SecurIST: Ensuring Secure, Dependable & Resiliant ICT Technologies to Empower the European Citizen of the Future

Industry and companies are benefiting significantly from the increased productiv-ity, competitiveness and customer satisfac-tion provided by mobility. However, to be viable in the future, mobility must address the foremost challenge confronting it today ensuring a high level of security to protect the enterprise network and the valuable in-formation it carries, dependability along with subscriber privacy issues. With the advent of mobility, security is even more important than before. Any existing vul-nerabilities of the wired network can be opened to attack if wireless access is not secure. The SecurIST initiative is a European consortium whose goal is to coordinate and consolidate the open challenges in Security and Dependability. The main objective of the SecurIST project is to deliver a Strate-gic Research Agenda for ICT Security and Dependability R&D for Europe.