Topics of Interest

To achieve its ambitions, ISGIG 2008 will gather leading experts from the key stakeholder groups to share their knowledge and discuss their ideas and visions on the cross-border dimension of the following topics:

• Resilient and dependable cross-border infrastructures:
• Resilient security, alert and threat sharing infrastructures (Critical Infrastructure Protection / Critical Information Infrastructure Protection)
• Trust infrastructures for federation of individuals and businesses
• Identity assurance infrastructures
• Specialized national (control, monitoring, etc.) Internets
• Open security standards, architectures and policies:
• Interoperability, information exchange (alert, threat, incident, etc.)
• Dependability and trust
• Security incident detection, reaction and recovery(Computer Emergency Response Teams / Computer Security Incident Response Teams / Warning, Advice and Reporting Points, etc.)
• Degrees of openness: Public vs. Selective "Institutional"
• Cross-border identity management:
• Models for identity establishment, verification and assurance
• Mechanisms: biometrics, identity cards, etc.
• Cross-border security management
• Managed security services
• ICT security in the European Union
• Secure mobility & mobile working
• Embedded and wireless (pervasive) computing and services
• Functional mapping of security models and mechanisms
• Security and privacy policy
• Legislative framework, IT and ICT governance and incentives:
• The role of government and related organizations
• Regulatory compliance: theory and practice
• IT and ICT governance
• Certification and evaluation
• IT outsourcing framework
• Virtual Worlds:
• A game or a business tool
• Impacts on business and regulatory models