With the VERNET program – safe and reliable transactions
in open networks – the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology has set up an
important program in order to enhance the acceptance of new technologies and services. The
aim is the development and testing of new security technologies for open communications
networks, in particular the internet. The project with an overall budget of about €
14.4. million will be proportionately funded in accordance with the sponsorship guidelines
of the Ministry with about € 8.8 million. IABG mbH in Ottobrunn and the Munich Management
Consultants bpu were commissioned with the accompanying scientific research. The program
is supported by the project sponsor Multimedia in the German Aerospace Centre (DLR).
Konrad Rosmus, the IABG member of staff responsible for the accompanying research: 'By
sponsoring seven innovative ideas, best practice examples are created for IT security technology
with which own prejudices can be reduced, the security in the World Wide Web enhanced and
the acceptance of new media, in particular in e-commerce, clearly increased. This is achieved
by observing the whole cycle of an exemplary IT service and not isolated individual segments
of a value creation chain'.
The VERNET projects are due to run until the end of 2004 and cover a wide spectrum of topics,
starting with secure operating systems via innovative SW development methods through to
mobile coding units and long-tem archiving.
The individual VERNET projects were commenced in the second half of 2001. In the meantime,
respectively, the first phases of the requirements analyses and groundwork tasks have been
completed. Thereby it was revealed that adequate concepts exist for the demanding technological
challenges and efficient innovative solutions can be expected, whereby, in one instance,
the bridge-building between basis technology and concrete application between two VERNET
projects has already been successfully accomplished.
Further information on VERNET can be found on the Internet under http://www.vernetinfo.de.
06/17/02
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