Seminar on information technology security in the 21st century: implications for the EU

Session 1: Why should we care about IT security?
Chair: Nicole Gnesotto
IT infrastructures as platforms for attacks
Participant from SGDN
Potential spill over effects (critical infrastructure)
Martin Davis, Outreach Team, National Infrastructure Co-ordination Centre (NISCC)

Session 2: Information security (Infosec) vulnerabilities
Chair: Burkard Schmitt
Threats to the IT backbone
Gustav Lindström, Research Fellow, EUISS
Risks posed by “monoculture” and proprietary standards
Jean Pierre Quemard, Chief Executive Officer, EADS Telecom

Session 3: Managing threats to IT infrastructures
Chair: Gustav Lindström
Criteria and strategies for an effective IT-security risk management
Gebhard Geiger, Research Fellow, Technische Universität München & SWP
Legal measures
Participant from SGDN
Public awareness measures
Reinhard Hutter, Senior Vice President InfoCom, Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH (IABG)

Session 4: IT security in Europe—current and future steps
Chair: Gustav Lindström
National and EU level policies to counter IT threats
Participant from SGDN
Implications for CFSP/ESDP
Bartolomeo Manenti, Head of Division Infosec, Secretariat General of the Council of the European Union
Towards an effective EU policy
Laurent Cabirol, Project Officer, DG Information Society, European Commission