BIONETS WP 4 . 2 – SECURITY D 4 . 2 Towards Security in BIONETS

SUMMARY This deliverable sheds some light on the numerous security problems BIONETS has to face. It refines the first drafts of the security architecture which have been sketched in [1, 2, 3] and gives a global understanding on how this architecture is integrated in BIONETS. Of course, this refinement preceded an enhanced analysis of the security requirments which have partially been assembled in [4, 5]. A first version of this conglomerate is also available in [3]. This work forms the basis for the research presented in the remainder of this document which outlines mechanisms that are foreseen to be employed in BIONETS in order to support secure communication and the secure deployment of services. For this purpose the document provides four main parts which reflect the four mainstreams of research conducted in work package four. They comprise the topics: mechanisms for privacy, anonymity and authenticity, trust and reputation mechanism, autonomic security mechanisms, and research on secure data dissemination approaches.