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The primary goal of SERENITY IP proposal is to enhance security and dependability for AmI ecosystems by capturing security expertise and making it available for automated processing. SERENITY will provide a framework supporting the automated integration, configuration, monitoring and adaptation of security and dependability mechanisms for such ecosystems.

Technically, SERENITY will be based on (i) the enhanced notions of S&D Patterns and Integration Schemes, and (ii) the support for run-time pro-active and reactive monitoring of requirements. SERENITY focuses on five key areas to provide security and dependability mechanisms: (i) Organization & Business, (ii) Workflow & Services, and (iii) Network & Devices levels, (iv) provision of integrated solutions for these mechanisms and (v) support for run-time monitoring. The results coming from these areas will be integrated to produce the SERENITY framework. The results will be driven by the scenarios and the industrial requirements that will influence the research results to make them ready to be exploitable.

The SERENITY framework will be made available as open source while other project results will form the basis of contributions to relevant standardisation bodies. Exploitation of results will be achieved through different routes but with the common theme of partners incorporating these results in current or planned products.

SERENITY brings together software companies, application solution developers and research institutions and will be driven by the need for security and dependability solutions in e-business,  e-government and communication domains. SERENITY is integrated in the following ways: 

• Technically, through complementary focus areas addressed by strong research teams, industrially, through multi-sectors application partners who share a common vision for the potential of security issues;
• Managerially, through a strong management structure based on entrepreneurial practices;
• Internationally, with partners from 9 different countries;
• Personally, through strong existing working relationships between partners.

To manage the project, a Consortium was established between 15 partners in December 2005. Partners, in respect to their project role, are:

• Technology Providers: Engineering - Ingegneria Informatica Spa, Athens Technology Center, Atos Origin, Sociedad Anonima Espanola, Stratègies Telecoms & Multimedia;
• Researchers: City University, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Zur Förderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Security Technology Competence Centre, Università Di Trento, University Of The Aegean, University Of Malaga;
• Domain Experts: Sap Ag, Telefònica I+D, Thales (Deep Blue).

Deep Blue role

The main focus of the Deep Blue activity in SERENITY will be the evaluation and tentative application of security patterns integration schemes in the dependability domain, with specific reference to safety critical systems. Deep Blue will bring its specific competency in the analysis and evaluation of systems in the Air Traffic Management (ATM) Domain, characterized by high integrity and dependability requirements.  

Evaluation Session Video

Here in the following the movie of the 1st Evaluation Session of the Air Traffic Management Prototytpe held in Rome on February 10th, 2008.

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