Das Projekt "European Control System Security Incident Analysis Network (ECOSSIAN)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Institut für Automation und Kommunikation e.V. durchgeführt. Der Schutz kritischer Infrastrukturen wie etwa Energieerzeugung und -verteilnetze, Transportsysteme, Wasserver- und -entsorgung oder wichtiger Produktionsstandorte der fertigungs- oder verfahrenstechnischen Industrie erfordert Lösungen zum Erkennen von Störungen oder gezielten Manipulationen. Ebenso wichtig ist das Management angemessener Gegenmaßnahmen, da die Wechselwirkungen zwischen den verschiedenen kritischen Infrastrukturen sehr vielfältig sind. So können sich Ereignisse in Energieversorgungsnetzen z. B. auch auf andere kritische Infrastrukturen wie etwa Transportsysteme oder die Wasserversorgung auswirken.
Im Projekt ECOSSIAN (European Control System Security Incident Analysis Network) werden Plattformen und Methoden entwickelt, die ein lokales, nationales und Europa-weites Reagieren auf Ereignisse ermöglichen. Im Rahmen des durch die EU geförderten Projektes werden durch ifak Arbeiten zum Erkennen und Auswerten von Fehlern in industriellen Netzwerken für die Automatisierung von Produktionsanlagen und Energieverteilnetzen durchgeführt. Weiterhin unterstützt ifak die Spezifikation einer geeigneten IT-Plattform.
Das Projekt "Securing the spices and herbs commodity chains in Europe against deliberate, accidental or natural biological and chemical contamination (SPICED)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung durchgeführt. The food chain security from the primary production to the consumer ready food against deliberate, accidental or natural (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear) contamination stands in close correlation to the food safety of herbs and spices. The major aim of SPICED is a throughout characterization of the heterogeneous spice and herb matrices and their respective intra- and interplant production- and supply chain. Special attention hereby should be paid to relevant biological and chemical hazards that can lead to major deliberate, accidental or natural contaminations in the food supply chain. Furthermore, the knowledge about biological hazard properties and on-site high throughput diagnostic methods for their appropriate detection should be improved in order to avoid (industrial) chemical adulteration and to guarantee the authenticity of spices and herbs by evaluation and optimization of non-targeted fingerprinting methods. A further focus of the project will be the improvement of the alerting-, reporting- and decontamination systems as well as the development of standard techniques to ensure prevention and response on a high quality level. The consortium will evaluate the most important spices and herbs that cause or could be used as natural, accidental or deliberate contaminants, depending on the consumed quantity and the relative frequency of natural or accidental contaminations. SPICED will focus on pathogens based on their frequency of natural occurrence, possible impact on human health, and relevance for food terrorism. The entire project has been planned for 36 months and brings together experts and scientists from 11 different areas. The spice and herbs primary production and supply chain is very heterogeneous since most of the condiments are imported from non-European countries. The SPICED-Team comprises the most important players of the European spice market from the major importer (Germany), the major re-exporter (Netherlands) to the leading paprika producing country (Hungary). The results gained by SPICED will form a solid base to develop information material from advice ranging, brochures and other supporting documents to workshops for scientific researchers.
Das Projekt "Hybrid Risk Management for Utility Networks (HYRIM)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH durchgeführt. Risk management is a core duty in critical infrastructures as operated by utility providers. Despite the existence of numerous risk assessment tools to support the utility providers in estimating the nature and impact of possible incidents, risk management up till now is mostly a matter of best practice approaches. Risk management tools are mostly focused on one of two major topics: - the utility network physical infrastructure, consisting of, e.g. gas, water pipes or power lines - the utilitys control network including SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) networks and business and information systems. In the context of utility providers, these network types exhibit a significant interaction, and therefore risk management methods that focus on just one of these network types might be insufficient - referred to as interconnected utility infrastructures in this description. The main objective of this project is to identify and evaluate Hybrid Risk Metrics for assessing and categorising security risks in interconnected utility infrastructure networks in order to provide foundations for novel protection and prevention mechanisms. The project will provide utility network providers with a risk assessment tool that - in adherence with, e.g., the BSI or ICNC recommendations - supports qualitative risk assessment based on numerical (quantitative) techniques. For that matter, our method will explicitly account for the infrastructures two-fold nature in terms of the utility network and the control network alongside it. The expected impact is thus a movement away from best practice only, towards the treatment of risk in utility networks based on a sound and well-understood mathematical foundation. The project will take an explicit step towards considering security in the given context of utility networks, ultimately yielding a specially tailored solution that is optimal for the application at hand.