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Se­cu­ri­ty com­mu­ni­ties ISSE/SICHERHEIT 2010
5 Oct 2010 - 7 Oct 2010

The ISSE (Information Security Solutions Europe) will hold its 12th conference on 5-7th October in Berlin in cooperation with SICHERHEIT, the biannual congress on safety and security of Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI e.V.)

The focus of ISSE is on security as a part of business processes and electronic transactions. One of the biggest challenges today is to manage security in applications: issues like return on investment, total cost of ownership, risk management as well as interoperability are of great importance. In 2010 ISSE will focus on submissions on implemented security solutions and case studies from specific application areas and industry sectors:

  • eBusiness
  • financial sector and enterprise security
  • health care
  • eGovernment and public sector
  • private sector

For more information: http://isse.eu.com/

Se­cu­ri­ty com­mu­ni­ties FIS2010
20 Sep 2010 - 22 Sep 2010

The third Future Internet Symposium will be held on 20-22nd September in Berlin. This year the conference will focus on the aspect of virtualisation of ICT resources and services.
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

Future Internet Architectures and Protocols

  • Network Virtualization and future network infrastructures
  • Reliability and performance of the Future Internet
  • Mobility and Ubiquity in the Future Internet
  • Security, privacy, anonymity and trust in the Future Internet
  • Experimental facilities and experimental research for the Future Internet
  • Multimedia technologies for the Future Internet
  • Performance metrics and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for the Future Internet

Semantic Technologies

  • Emerging semantics in sensor networks/things and content/media in the Future Internet
  • Sensor data processing for the Future Internet
  • Privacy, Security, Trust and Provenance models in the context of the Web of Data for the Future Internet
  • Semantic data integration and fusion of heterogeneous data coming from legacy data sources, sensor network data streams, Web 2.0 technologies and mobile devices for the Future Internet
  • Semantic data management for distributed data sources in mobile environments, e.g. stream-based modeling and reasoning
  • Semantics, social communities and mobile systems for the Future Internet
  • Multilingualism in the Future Internet

Internet of Services, Things and Content:

  • Abstractions for the Internet of Services, Things and Content
  • Infrastructure, Platform and Software as a Service
  • Cloud Computing, Service Cloud and Virtualization
  • IoS, IoT, IoC life cycle: description, discovery, composition and monitoring
  • Realization of Federated, Open and Trusted platforms
  • IoS, IoT, IoC quality, dependability, survivability, and reliability
  • Resource organization, management, composition and behavior
  • Service adaptation, variability and evolution in the Future Internet
  • Verification, validation, trust and testing for IoS, IoT and IoC
  • IoS, IoT, IoC personalization, mobility and context awareness

For more information: http://www.fis2010.org/

Se­cu­ri­ty com­mu­ni­ties CYTER 2010
23 Jun 2010 - 24 Jun 2010

The 4th on Cyberterrorism and Cybercrime will be held in Prague, Czech Republic. CYTER 2010 will cover broad spectrum of topic from technology and networking to sociological and psychological effects of internet misuse. The politics and global view of the cyber terrorism and crime creates integral part of conference.

For more information:https://cythres.fd.cvut.cz/cyter2010/en/

Se­cu­ri­ty com­mu­ni­ties Security in Futures - Security in Change
3 Jun 2010 - 4 Jun 2010

Finland Futures Research Centre will hold its 12th Annual Conference.

This conference aims to look deeply into the inevitable changes of security issues. Novel thinking and solutions are required to fulfil the human need to feel secure and to build more reasonable security solutions for futures’ world. By developing images of alternative futures, the goal of the conference is to give new viewpoints and novel ideas to decision-makers and researchers to assist them towards more feasible decisions to construct the world a better place

The conference will be held 3–4 June in 2010 in Turku, Finland.

STRAW will be present here!!

For more information: http://conference2010.wordpress.com/

Se­cu­ri­ty com­mu­ni­ties CRESCENDO Wide Area Surveillance workshop
12 Apr 2010

During March and April 2010, FP7 Project CRESCENDO is organizing nine workshops on different topics to discuss about the current situation, required developments and policy means to promote them.
On 12th of April 2010, Tecnalia, member of this consortium, is coordinating a specific session on Wide Area Surveillance.

STRAW will be present at this workshop.

Venue: Borschette building, 36 rue Froissard, Brussels, from 10am to 4.30pm.

More information here: http://www.crescendo-project.org/scripts/home/publigen/content/templates...

Straw Events STRAW Sec­ond Work­shop
9 Mar 2010
  • "Strengthening the European Security Network"

    • THIS EVENT IS CLOSED
    Watch filmclips of lectures here
    Find the presentations at the end of this page.

    • Date: March 9th 2010 - Madrid

    The workshop will comprise a presentation of the STRAW project, a strategic session on the state of the Security sector in Europe and two thematic sessions on "Border Surveillance" and "Critical Infrastructure Protection" .

    Registration here

    Registration has no fee charge. Due to logistic constrains the participation in the workshop will be limited. Priority for acceptance will be based on order of arrival in the subscription page

    For further information, check the agenda of the event or contact us.

WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS:

Invitation to STRAW second Workshop.JPG, Second session_Critical Infrastructure Protection.zip, First session_Integrated border management (2).zip, First session_Integrated border management (1).zip, State of the security sector in Europe.zip, STRAW_Creating a European security Network.zip, STRAW second workshop agenda.pdf, Closing_Emerging issues on the security sector.zip
Se­cu­ri­ty com­mu­ni­ties ETSI Security Workshop 2010
20 Jan 2010 - 22 Jan 2010

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)organises its anual Security workshop in Sophia Antipolis (France).

In this occasion the workshop will present an overview of the work done across standards and technical bodies, along with presentations on Security innovation, including the following topics:

  • Next Generation Networks security,
  • Mobile Telecommunications systems,
  • ICT trustworthiness and integrity
  • Research and Innovation
  • RFID and NFC Security issues
  • Internet of Things
  • Identity Management and your Privacy
  • Cryptography
  • Smart Cards and future trends
  • Quantum Key Distribution
  • Machine to Machine communication
  • Standards prioritisation and evaluation

More information: http://www.etsi.org/SECURITYWORKSHOP

Se­cu­ri­ty com­mu­ni­ties Joint ICSOC&ServiceWave 2009 Conference
24 Nov 2009 - 27 Nov 2009

ICSOC and its European partner ServiceWave Conference series organize "The joint ICSOC/ServiceWave 2009". This event aims to provide a world-leading meeting and inimitable occasion for academic researchers and industry practitioners to report on innovative research work in service oriented computing.

ICSOC/ServiceWave 2009 will put special accent on outstanding research papers leading towards the convergence of the Internet of Services & Things.

More information:
http://www.icsoc.org/
http://www.servicewave.eu

Se­cu­ri­ty com­mu­ni­ties ICT makes the difference - International Conference
22 Nov 2009 - 25 Nov 2009

The International Conference: "The Future of Ambient Intelligence and ICT for Security" will take place in Brussels (Belgium) on November 22-25, 2009. This conference, co-financed by the European Commission, DG Research, Directorate Science, Economy and Society, ICTethics, Grant 230368, will comprise the following topics of interest:

  • The future of the computer (Ambient Intelligence; Disappearing computer; Intelligent business environments; Personal Health Systems)
  • The future of the internet (Internet of things; Brains online; Distributed decision-making by non-humans; RFID)
  • The future of the relation between the virtual and the real (ICT-Enhanced reality; Crime in cyberspace; Robots as experts in law and surgery; Robots as Personal Humanoid Assistant)
  • The future of ICT for human security (ICT and national security ; ICT and the vulnerabilities of human life; Multiple identities; Biometrics)
  • Ethical, Socio-economic, and Legal Aspects of ICT – ESLA (Privacy; Digital divide, e-Inclusion, Justice; ICT, the Lisbon Strategy, and social values; Intellectual property, copyright; SPAM and phishing; The abolition of man and human relationships; Open access; The 'digital' fix - 'Technological' fix, focussing on ICT)
  • Lessons learned from biotechnology or biomedicine (Moratorium and ban; Containment; The 'four principles' (Beauchamp and Childress); Committees; Precaution; Public acceptance and public revolt; The role of the media; Human dignity)

Participants in EU funded projects (FP6, FP7 and other) will be given special opportunities to interact and network.

More information: http://www.ictthatmakesthedifference.eu/

Se­cu­ri­ty com­mu­ni­ties ESPI space policy workshops - November 2009
12 Nov 2009 - 30 Nov 2009

The European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) is organising two space policy related workshops, in November 2009 in Vienna:

  • European Identity through Space, 12-13 November 2009
  • Space and Maritime Security Strategies and Capabilities to Counter Piracy, 30 November 2009, 09.00-16.15.

More information: http://www.espi.or.at/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=99&Itemi...

Piracy Workshop.pdf, European Identity.pdf