Partners

  • ACRIS GmbH switz
    • Acris GmbH was founded in 2005 as a follow up of the private company Acris-IT (founded in 1985) for Prof. Hämmerli. The company focuses on high level consulting, research and dissemination of advanced security and CIIP. Acris customers include UBS AG, Bank Julius Bär, Credit Suisse, Departement of Defence, Switzerland, DoD’s procurement Agency armasuisse, German Federal Agency for information security BSI, Microsoft GmbH Switzerland and Cisco Systems. Acris has also been a participant in the EU FP6 Ciirco and IRRIIS projects.
  • ATOS Origin SAE spain
    • Atos Origin s.a.e is the Spanish branch of a major international IT services company, Atos Origin plc. Atos Origin’s business is turning client vision into results through the application of consulting, systems integration and managed operations. For more information, please visit the company's web site [www.atosorigin.com]. Atos Research & Innovation, node of R&D at Atos Origin in Spain, is a point of reference in innovation for the whole Atos Origin group. It focuses on projects combining research & development and the economic exploitation of investigation’s results. Within the Consulting and Public Sector business unit, the Atos Research and Innovation group (ARI) concentrates on the realisation of international projects, combining the most up-to-date technological developments with a high awareness of the human factors (education sciences, disability-related issues, cultural diversity, multi-linguality).
  • AVOCO Secure Ltd uk
    • Avoco Secure - Avoco Secure develops security software for military, government, financial and major corporate groups where protection of intellectual property is of paramount importance. Avoco’s security applications ensure that enterprises and individuals can control access to, secure the use of document content and enable the use of digital signatures for signing, time stamping and audit. Avoco provides unparalleled access control options including a unique combined authentication feature with enables the use of multiple forms of identity to access and control information. As well as flexible restriction options Avoco secures document content as it is created; and the content is persistently secured both inside and outside of an organization creating secure trusted information sharing.
  • @bc® - Arendt Business Consulting ger
    • @bc® – Arendt Business Consulting is a private consulting and advisory firm for Henning Arendt, focussing on financial services and security including PKI and biometrics. It operates since 1998. @bc® is a registered Trademark in the EU and the U.S.. Customers include major coporations like Deutsche Bank, Sparkassen Informatik, SAP, Siemens, TeleTrusT as well as some SME security specialists.
    • The European Finance Forum is a not-for-profit organization to foster exchange of financial know-how and networking by participation in monthly meetings (jour fixe).
      It was founded on 14. August 1989 as the "Frankfurter Finanz Forum" (FFF) by members of the German Bundesbank with regular meetings and workshops in Frankfurt. Additional locations were included: Berlin (2000), München (2002), Hamburg (2003), Duesseldorf (2004). In August 2004 the Franfurter Finanz Forum was named "European Finance Forum". With the new name it expanded to Vienna (2005), Amsterdam, Luxemburg and Stuttgart (2006). Among the current sponsors are: ABN AMRO, Avocado Rechtsanwälte, Banque LBLux, Bloomberg, Bundesbank, Deloitte, FD, Euler-Hermes, FD, Hypoport, KWF, OSV, Robert Half, Suedwestbank, Vallstein. Among the speakers are members of the board of the European Central Bank as well as those of other financial institutions. www.europeanfinanceforum.org
  • EDGE International BV france
    • Founded by Tom Buschman in the summer 2006, EDGE International aims to create a comprehensive range of technological service solutions to assist both large corporations and SMEs in their trading activities, enabling fast and structured access to trading counterparts and financial trade services and facilitating the synchronisation of process and documentary requirements with the physical supply chain.
    • After developing a first concept prototype and rousing a significant interest with several key international organisations, EDGE is rapidly developing solutions in collaboration with a range of well established partner service providers, technology providers and financial services firms.
  • Waterford Institute of Technology italy
    • The Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) is a research centre within Waterford Institute of Technology. TSSG are the largest computing/software research group in Ireland. All funding is awarded on a competitive basis. The TSSG was founded in 1996. Since then, it has grown with over 35 active projects, nearly 40 completed projects, 115 active staff and students, about two-thirds are professional research staff and the remainder is a mix of academic staff and MSc and PhD students with an overall €26Million in funding between 1996-2006. Initial work was on telecoms network management, but this has expanded since then to include mobility, security, autonomics, software development tools, pervasive computing and multimedia. More information at http://www.wit.ie and http://www.tssg.org WIT has 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 successful EU-US Summit Series Workshops as described already in the proposal, which has led to the establishment of the INCO-TRUST CA. WIT were involved in the September 2007 Financial Workshop in Frankfurt where the ideas for PARSIFAL were initiated and contributed to the workshop report available in Annex 1. ESFORS (FP6 CA): Coordination project related to elaborating the future challenges for software and services trust, security and dependability.