SERSCIS

The SERSCIS Technical Kick-Off meeting took place on 16-17 Oct 2008, attended by all partners. This was the first opportunity for an in-depth discussion of its research and technical challenges. Project coordinator Mike Surridge said:

“SERSCIS is a hugely ambitious project based on the use of cutting edge technology. We’re aiming to apply semantic modelling and reasoning technology and autonomic ICT management to detect threats and support critical infrastructure operators to manage the consequences. If SERSCIS can achieve all its goals then it will have a wide-ranging impact on critical infrastructure information network design and operation in the future”

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EC Project 225336 Semantically Enhanced Resilient and Secure Critical Infrastructure Services (SERSCIS) has officially started.

The goal of SERSCIS is to develop adaptive service-oriented technologies for creating, monitoring and managing secure, resilient and highly available information systems underpinning critical infrastructures, so they can survive faults, mismanagement and cyber-attack, and automatically adapt to dynamically changing requirements arising from the direct impact on the critical infrastructure from natural events, accidents and malicious attacks.

The project will use a service-oriented architecture to make interconnected ICT systems more manageable, allowing dynamic adaptation to manage changing situations, and counter the risk amplification effect of interconnectedness. Innovations will be validated in a scenario from the air transportation sector.