Management Summary
The SecurIST Advisory Board has undertaken the task of examining the requirements for the
European Security and Dependability Research Framework from the perspectives of the Information
Society’s various stakeholders, with a particular focus on those of the individual or citizen within this
Society. The information systems that make up the European Information Society in this context
consists of hardware, software, processes and people, thus covering non-technical as well as technical
aspects. Stakeholders of the Information Society include (but are not limited to) individual citizens,
SMEs, large corporations, non-governmental organisations and governments, and indeed the research
community itself.