Periodo: 2015
URL: EP3R 2010-2013 – Four Years of Pan-European Public Private Cooperation
Descrizione:
The EP3R (European Public-Private Partnership for Resilience) was established in 2009 and was the very first attempt at Pan-European level to use a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) to address crossborder Security and Resilience concerns in the Telecom Sector. The EP3R participants initiated many discussions, saw a lot of commitment, and produced interesting conclusions. It also revealed some further needs in the security and resilient field and also some gaps to be filled in order to reach a higher maturity level of the Telecom Sector. The EP3R closed down in April 2013, after 4 years of existence and practically 3 years of operations. The impact of the very first European Public -Private Partnership for Resilience had to be assessed and lessons had to be drawn for future similar initiatives and other funded actions for improving European resilience. Generally, the PPP approach is judged to be particularly appropriate for addressing complex cooperation problems within multi-stakeholder scenarios. The case of EP3R is mirrored overseas by the National Council of ISACs1 (Information Sharing and Analysis Centres) and many other similar initiatives. This underlines the appropriateness of the PPP approach to address cooperation issues as complex as the security and resilience ones. The large number of PPP experiences worldwide has confirmed the value of such approach also for its flexibility and appropriateness for today emerging challenges including cyber-attacks mitigation, critical infrastructure protection and security and resilience of information and communications. This study proposes to investigate the gap between expected optimal features of a Public Private Partnership for Resilience and its implementation in the EP3R, and bases its conclusions both on literature contributions and on a direct collection of information (i.e. interviews and surveys) with key EP3R actual and potential stakeholders (i.e. Chief information security officers, Security senior experts of both public and private European organisations). The specific aim of this analysis was to:
-Review the experience of Public
-Private Partnerships in the telecom and information technology sector; Understand how a PPP addresses the needs of improving the network and information security at Pan
-European level; Assess how such cooperation platforms can positively impact on security and resilience.