Abstract
Security and trust are core research issues for the further development of the Information Society and for 10 years have played, and continue to play, an integral part in the European Union’s Framework Programmes (FPs) for R&D. EU-supported collaborative research projects in trust and security bring together multi-partner stakeholders from industry (technology and service providers, system integrators and end-users), academic and research laboratories working in several interdisciplinary research fields. Sometimes, projects include actors from the legal, social and economic sectors. Together their joint efforts permit a better understanding of the conflicts and synergies between security, privacy and free market economics, as well as of the psychology and sociology of trust and security when building and deploying new technologies. The long term goal for funding this research effort is to convert the know-how of the EU in security, privacy and trust into economic advantages. In the period 1998–2002, under FP5, original and ground-breaking scientific & technological (S&T) work took place in ICT Trust and Security. Key S&T developments achieved at that period included significant advances in cryptology, smart cards and biometrics. EU-supported research also permitted the identification of new concepts in fields of work such as privacy, dependability and risk analysis. In the period 2002–2006, under FP6, research efforts in ICT security and trust have been further intensified. As part of the FP6-IST Programme, 37 R&D projects
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