VITA (Vital Infrastructure Threats and Assurance Sample Clauses

VITA (Vital Infrastructure Threats and Assurance. Threat Taxonomy for Critical Infrastructures and Critical Infrastructure Risk Aspects at EU-level, Deliverable D1.2, 2006,, 2006, xxxx://xxxx.xxxx.xx/index.php ([VIT06]) VITA is a project funded by the European Commission under the first call of the Preparatory Action in the Field of Security Research (PASR 2004). It was performed in the period December 2004 – July 2006 by an international consortium consisting of seven partners from six EU countries which were co-ordinated by IABG, Ottobrunn, Germany. VITA deals with the threat of Critical Infrastructures in Europe by natural disasters, manmade disasters and technical incidents, and addressing the protection of such infrastructures via realistic scenario and crisis management simulation, increasing the awareness and a sense of urgency on the need for CIP (Continuous Improvement Process) capabilities. VITA aimed for delivering assessment on the threats to and assurance and protection of highly networked infrastructures, most of which are operating trans-nationally, and disruption of which is critical to Europe’s security. In particular the project provided: • Methods to raise awareness and a sense of urgency on the requirements for international critical infrastructure protection at both the European and national levels by developing, executing and analysing a scenario with national stakeholder participation • A vision on methods, tools and technologies required for the protection (pro-action, prevention, preparation, incident response, and recovery) of critical infrastructures as evaluated input to the preparation of the forthcoming European Security Research Program (ESRP) • A demonstrator experiment of tools and technologies in a selected set of end-user applications for proving the feasibility and efficiency of the approach.