Think-Trust

Waterford Institute of Technology is a publicly funded third level institute in the South East region of Ireland with 6,400 full-time students and 4,550 part-time students. Founded in 1996, the Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) is the largest research group in WIT working on a range of nationally funded and EU-funded research programmes and projects, as well as direct commercial consultancy and development. Security competence is becoming a key horizontal theme for the whole TSSG group, in much the same way the European research work programme and Technology Platforms for FP7 are developing. Initial work within TSSG was on telecoms network management, but this has expanded since then to include mobility, security, autonomics, software development tools, pervasive computing and multimedia.

WIT have been involved in a number of Security, Trust and Dependability projects including:
SecurIST (FP6 CA): Co-ordination project (led by WIT) elaborating the roadmap for FP7 on all aspects ICT of security, including dependability and trust including International Co-operation. Through their role in the SecurIST project, WIT were co-organisers of the succesful EU-US Summit Series Workshops as described in the Inco-Trust site (Project Motivation) section.  ESFORS (FP6 CA): Coordination project related to elaborating the future challenges for software and services trust, security and dependability. WIT also have some involvement in TSD elements of OPAALS (FP6 NoE), a network of excellence related to digital ecosystems, DBE (FP6 IP on digital business ecosystems), ENABLE (FP6 project on Enhancement of Mobile IPv6), and the security part of DAIDALOS I and II (FP6 IP on pervasive services).

Role in Think-Trust and related experience:
WIT will lead WP1, and contribute to all other WPs, which will further the work already initiated by the IST SecurIST project and build new strategic alliances and carry out the Project management activities, including events organization, external liaisons and dissemination. WIT has extensive experience in leading Co-ordination Action projects and, in particular, in the areas of Trust, Security and Dependability. This has given them a central role within this community, which will be a crucial factor to the success in their leadership of this Co-ordination action and contribution to the WPs.

Key personnel

Zeta Dooly graduated from Waterford Institute of Technology in 1996 with an honours Bachelor of Business Studies degree and subsequently obtained a Masters of Business Studies (through research) in Knowledge Management in 2006.  Zeta is a Research Project Manager involved in two projects in the EC FP6 IST Programme, within the Unit Security: SecurIST (www.securitytaskforce.eu) and ESFORS (www.esfors.org). Within these, Ms. Dooly has been responsible for project management activities and chairing both programme and organisation committees on a number of results oriented workshops and networking events to great success such as the EU-International Cyber TSD Workshop in Nov. 2006. Previously Zeta worked at Ericsson, WestPac Bank and Sun Life Financial in a variety of software testing and management roles.  Further details at http://www.tssg.org/people/zdooly/ 

James Clarke received an MSc in Applied Mathematics from Hofstra University in New York in 1992 and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from State University of New York in 1986. He works for the Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) at the Waterford Institute of Technology in Waterford, Ireland. Since January 2008, Mr. Clarke is the project co-ordinator of a project within the 7th Framework Programme 7 (FP7) of research and development project entitled International Co-operation in Trustworthy, Secure and Dependable ICT infrastructures (INCO-TRUST), which is facilitating collaboration and partnerships between researchers from the EU and industrialised nations with the goal of coordinating the multiple research efforts underway in the areas of ICT Trust, Security and Dependability (TSD). Mr. Clarke is also an elected member of the Permanent Stakeholder group of ENISA, the European Network and Information Security Agency and to the steering board of the eMobility Technology Platform and leads the NEM Technology Platform Security cluster. During 2005 – 2007, Mr. Clarke worked on the IST SecurIST project (FP6-004547) and IST ESFORS project. Previously, Mr. Clarke worked for eight years at LAKE Communications in Ireland as a Project Manager involved in a number of FP4 – FP6 projects. From 1986 – 1994, Mr. Clarke worked for Grumman Corporation in Bethpage, New York and Melbourne, Florida. Mr. Clarke was in the Software Engineering systems design group in Grumman.

Keith Howker has been active in promoting security and trust work in the framework programme for many years. Following retirement from ICL where he established and managed the RACE project SESAME, he worked for a while for the Commission in the then DG XIII on the planning of IST security aspects of FP4. He has since contributed on several security-related projects - ASPeCT, USECA, NESSIE, SHAMAN, PAMPAS, and Ambient Networks - for Royal Holloway University of London, K U Leuven and Vodafone. He was actively involved in the SecurIST project, especially working with the Advisory Board, whose recommendations relate to many of the issues the ThinkTrust will address. It is envisaged that Mr. Howker will be taking up a Visiting Lecturer role at the WIT in order to work on the ThinkTrust project.