The Advisory Board believe that it is important to address all the different facets of security and
dependability in the European Information Society. Dependability is an integrating concept that
encompasses the qualities or attributes such as availability, reliability, safety, integrity, and
maintainability, and mainly seeks to achieve these attributes in the face of possible accidental physical
and design faults. Security is seen as encompassing the confidentiality
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, integrity and availability of
information and seeks to preserve these properties in the face of any threat that may compromise them
such as software failure, human error or deliberate attack. The two concepts, overlap extensively, and
are closely inter-related. In order to get the maximum benefits of research results going forward, an
interdisciplinary and integrated approach is required which goes beyond focussing on narrow
technological issues