Atos Origin is a leading business and technology integrator providing integrated design, build and operate IT solutions to a base of large global clients in carefully targeted industry sectors. It provides full business and technology integration services to its clients, through the application of Consulting, Systems Integration and Managed Operations.

The company generates annual revenues in excess of EUR 5 billion, and employs over 50,000 employees in 50 countries. Atos Origin is quoted on the Paris Euronext Premier Marché and trades as Atos Origin, AtosEuronext, Atos Worldline, Atos KPMG Consulting and Atos Odyssée. Atos Origin's client list includes ABN AMRO, Akzo Nobel, Alstom, BNP Paribas, BP, Ericsson, EDF, Euronext, Fiat, France Telecom, ICI, ING, KPN, Lucent, Philips, Renault, Royal Bank of Scotland, Saudi Aramco, Schlumberger, Shell, Telecom Italia, UBS, Unilever, Vivendi Universal and Vodafone.

Founded in 1980 and established in Italy, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A is the leader of the Engineering Group.

Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Group is among major players in the Italian Information Technology services sector leading, in particular, the market of System and Business Integration (74% of revenues) and Outsourcing (26% of revenues).

The Group operates on all market segments ? banks, insurance, industry, telecommunications, defence, healthcare, central and local public administration, utility and strategic consultancy ? offering in each segment technological expertise to develop and manage complex information systems for more than 800 client companies.

Moreover Engineering has an operational R&D department since 1987 driving the research initiatives for the whole Group with almost 100 researchers and a wide cooperation network at the international level with the goal to facilitate the knowledge and the technology transfer process as well as the direct involvement of production staff within the research initiatives.

The Navigators Group is part of the Large-Scale Informatic Systems Laboratory, a research unit of the department of Informatics of the University of Lisboa, where it addresses architecture and infrastructure issues of distributed systems, specifically aspects of large-scale, dependability, security and real-time, both of system support and applications.

The group has been very active in international research for 20 years now and has taken part in several international research projects, such as DELTA-4, MAFTIA (Malicious- and Accidental-Fault Tolerance in Internet Applications), CORTEX (CO-operating Real-time senTient objects: architecture and EXperimental evaluation), and the CaberNet Network of Excellence. Research in security and dependability is strong asset of the group, organised around a research line devoted to Fault and Intrusion Tolerance in Open Distributed Systems, investigating models, protocols and architectures suitable for applications with strong requirements to remain operational despite accidental faults or malicious attacks. The group is currently involved in several European and national research projects.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is a leading global provider of products, technologies, solutions and services to consumers and businesses. The company?s offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. We invent, engineer and deliver technology solutions that drive business value, create social value and improve the lives of our customers. HP was founded in 1939 as one of the first companies in "Silicon Valley" in California, USA. HP has been operating in Europe since 1959 when it opened an office in Geneva, and a manufacturing plant in B?ngen, Germany.

HP Laboratories, the strategic research organisation for the company, has its European facility in Bristol, England. It is responsible for one third of the organisation?s fundamental research and employs approximately 150 scientists and engineers from across Europe. Projects include Internet security and cryptography, digital media management, quantum computing, advanced imaging technologies, mobile communications, the semantic web and grid/utility computing.

Founded in 1972, SAP AG is the recognized leader in providing collaborative business solutions for all types of industries and for every major market.

With 12 million users, 100,600 installations, and more than 1,500 partners, SAP is the world's largest inter-enterprise software company and the world's third-largest independent software provider overall. We have a rich history of innovation and growth that has made us a true industry leader. Today, SAP employs more than 34,000 people in more than 50 countries.

SAP Research is the technology research department of SAP. It has several SAP Research Centers that are distributed around the globe. Although each of them excels in specific research areas, they have a joint commitment, which is to support SAP's long-term strategy and to establish SAP as the thought leader in the area of innovative and breakthrough information technology.

SAP Research is currently shaped around five long-term research programs that aim at introducing new technology and concepts for future solutions that will be of strategic importance to SAP and its customers. The five programs are: Business Process Management & Semantic Interoperability, Knowledge People Interaction, Security & Trust, Smart Items Research and Software Engineering & Architecture.

Waterford Institute of Technology is a publicly funded third level institute in the South East region of Ireland with 6,400 full-time students and 4,550 part-time students. The Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) is the largest research group in WIT working on a range of nationally funded and EU-funded research programmes and projects, as well as direct commercial consultancy and development. Security competence is becoming a key horizontal theme for the whole TSSG group, in much the same way the European research work programme and Technology Platforms for FP7 are developing.

TSSG has been involved in the SEINIT project which includes the development of a trusted and dependable security framework in mobile and heterogeneous networks. TSSG has also been driving the creation of an ?ICT Security & Dependability Research strategy beyond 2010?, through the SecurIST project and the Security Task Force. The TSSG has a strong record of participation in European funded projects both at the technical and project management level.