Project details

The VITA project aimed for delivering assessment on the threats to and assurance and protection of highly networked infrastructures, most of which are operating trans-nationally, and disruption of which is critical to Europe’s security. The project provided

• Methods to raise awareness and the sense of urgency on the need for vital infrastructure protection;
• An approach on methods, tools and technologies required for the protection improvement;
• A demonstrator experiment by a A scenario consists of a CI model, the initial states of all components and the scenario behaviour that describes the events that happen within the scenario.
  [Click for more information]scenario exercise with focus on energy. 

The project delivered a threats and process to comprehend the nature of risk and to determine the level of risk
[Click for more information]risk analysis, the proof of concept of highly innovative Modelling denotes the action of designing and creating a conceptual model or a computational model or a CI model or a computer simulation. Other synonyms may apply as well.
[Click for more information]modelling and See computer simulation.
[Click for more information]simulation, assessment and decision support tools including human See User-specified behaviour, System-specified behaviour
[Click for more information]behaviour representation. It can lay the foundation for the EU, for national governments and for infrastructure stakeholders to establish experimentation platforms for future continuous evaluation of the security of services, the intrinsic properties of something resulting in susceptibility to a risk source that can lead to an event with a consequence
[Click for more information]vulnerability of systems and the identification of dependencies and interdependencies. It is a basis to develop efficient and harmonised technologies and procedures for the whole Critical infrastructure protection (CIP) is the study, design and implemen-tation of measures (pro-action, prevention, preparation, incident response, recovery) aimed to reduce the risk that critical infrastructure fails with serious consequences and..
[Click for more information]critical infrastructure protection cycle of 

Preemption - Prevention - Preparation - Suppression - Reaction - Assessment.

The main tool and the heart of VITA was the demonstrator experiment. It delivered the most important result of VITA, namely the proof that the VITA methodology with scenarios, realistic exercises and participation of stakeholders and administrations is able to gain insight into mechanisms of Critical infrastructure protection (CIP) is the study, design and implemen-tation of measures (pro-action, prevention, preparation, incident response, recovery) aimed to reduce the risk that critical infrastructure fails with serious consequences and..
[Click for more information]Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) on an international level and with dependent and interdependent critical infrastructures.