Technology for Resilience

Our modern society depends on complex infrastructure in every day live. We study technologies for resilient networks, that means networks that provide and maintain an acceptable level of service in face of faults (unintentional, intentional, or naturally caused) affecting their normal operation.

Ontology and taxonomies for critical infrastructures

Existing standards in the field have so far only addressed resilience indirectly and thus without detailed definition of the taxonomy and thus of the semantics of security. The primary purpose of an ontology and taxonomies defined in this context is to use them as the basis of definitions and processes in the future work. A taxonomy is most often defined as a classification of terms and has close a relationship with the use of ontology.

Tracking standards

Since standardisation activites cover a vast area, ENISA is assessing current developments in the area of standardization that relate to the subject of resilience of communication networks that consitutes one of the main areas of work for ENISA.