Gzim Ocakoglu European Commission DG Enterprise

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Turkey IDA Info-Day AM Session, September 25, 2003
IDA Secure Communications Platforms TESTA and
PKI

• Gzim OcakogluEuropean Commission - DG Enterprise
• Ankara, 25 September 2003

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Outline

• TESTA at a glance
• Sectoral projects using TESTA
• What is TESTA?
• TESTA today
• The PKI service
• The future of TESTA

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TESTA at a glanceVocabulary...
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Sectoral Projects using TESTA

• Employment and Social Affairs
• EURES
• TESS
• Agriculture
• CATS/STATEL
• Transport
• Care II
• Fisheries
• Fides
• Regional Policy
• Structural funds (SFC)
• Health and consumer protection
• Eudra projects
• Euphin

• Justice and Home Affairs
• EURODAC
• Trade
• SIGL
• Statistics
• Datashop
• Statel
• Financial Intelligence
• FIUNET
• Humanitarian aid
• HOLIS (14 points)
• General applications
• IntraComm
• Circa

• New users coming soon .. - Justice and Home
  Affairs (VISA,SIS II) - Environmental
  protection (PROCIV NET) - Energy and Transport
  (SafeseaNet, TachoNet) - ...

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What is TESTA ?
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TESTA principles

• Trans European Services for Telematics between
  Administrations
• IP protocol on MPLS
• Separation from the Internet
• Registered but non-Internet routable address
  range
• Private domain-names (eu-admin.net)

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TESTA Benefits, Contractors, budget

• Secured telecommunications services with
  warranted Service Level Agreements (SLA)
• Network service and generic services delivered by
  Equant
• Support services (advice, help desk) provided by
  Unisys
• Duration of the contract until 2004
• Global potential value 28,5 million Euro

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TESTA a domain-based approach
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TESTA a domain-based approach
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Generic services
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Cost sharing

• All costs covered by IDA for
• National administrative networks
• EU institutions and EU agencies
• Cost sharing for
• Direct to TESTA connected local administrations
• Back-bone costs are covered by IDA
• Local loop costs not covered by IDA (Leased line,
  router, monitoring, installation)

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Connected Member States

• ? Luxembourg
• ? Netherlands
• ? Austria
• ? Portugal
• ? Finland
• ? France (in process)
• ? Sweden (in process)
• ? Iceland
• ? Norway

• ? Belgium
• ? Denmark
• ? Germany
• ? Greece
• ? Spain
• ? Ireland
• ? United Kingdom
• ? Italy

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Connected Acceding Countries
? Czech Republic - 05 06 2003 ? Estonia - 30 06
2003 ? Malta 25 08 2003 ? Poland 27 06 2003 ?
Slovenia 24 04 2003
? Cyprus to be connected end of Sept 2003
? Slovakia in the process
? Hungary in the process
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Connected EU institutions

• ? Council of the European Union
• ? European Parliament
• ? European Commission
• ? Court of auditors
• ? Court of Justice
• ? European Economic and Social Committee

• ? Committee of the regions
• Expected
• ? European Investment Bank

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Connected EU agencies

• ? CEDEFOP European Centre for the Development of
  Vocational Training
• ? EUROFOUND European Foundation for the
  Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
• ? EEA European Environment Agency
• ? ETF European Training Foundation
• ? EMCDDA European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and
  Drug Addiction
• ? EMEA European Agency for the Evaluation of
  Medicinal Products
• ? OHIM Office for Harmonisation in the Internal
  Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
• ? EU-OSHA European Agency for Safety and Health
  at Work
• ? CPVO Community Plant Variety Office
• ? CdT Translation Centre for the Bodies of the
  European Union
• ? EUMC European Monitoring Centre on Racism and
  Xenophobia
• ? EAR European Agency for Reconstruction
• ? EUROJUST

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TESTA today
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Activities on Network Extension

• Connect national networks in all Member States
• Connect Accession and Candidate Countries
• Integrate new users
• Environmental protection (PROCIV NET)
• Energy and Transport (SafeSeaNet, TachoNet)

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Activities on Security Enhancements
Turkey IDA Info-Day AM Session, September 25, 2003

• On the Eurodomain
• Add line-encryption (on-going)
• Prepare for TESTA security accreditation
• For the border to local domains
• Formulation of general security framework for the
  Local Domain Connection Points

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Activities on Quality Enhancements

• On TESTA services and TESTA environment
• Enhance resiliency of generic services
• Portal and newsletter
• Workbook and applications guidelines
• With end to end approach
• Promote SLAs in local domains through TESTA MoU

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The IDA PKI Service
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The IDA PKI project

• Objectives of the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
• ready to use by all networks of the IDA programme
• adaptable or extensible to the specific
  requirements of some networks
• enable the members of a user community to access
  other IDA networks with the same certificate
  (subject to access rights control)
• Set-up steps for each user community
• requirements analysis
• definition of organisation and services
• service set-up
• routine management of the infrastructure

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Technology Solution IDA PKI Service

• Web-based applications
• protection of web-based information repositories
  and client/server communications
• Secure messaging
• secure e-mail
• electronic signatures
• authentication
• integrity
• confidentiality

Secret (session) key
Encryption
Encrypted message
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TESTA the future
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TESTA post 2004 - Objective

• To define what TESTA will become after 2004 as an
  IDA communication platform
• To define the needs of communication at the
  European level
• the growing need for the exchange of information
  between European administrations
• the growing need of a secure and resilient
  platform

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TESTA post 2004 Working method

• TESTA Steering Committee
• Participants IDA, EC DI, Major Sectors (DG JAI,
  DG TAXUD), the Council,
• TESTA Expert Group Meetings
• The group will meet 2 or 3 times and will give
  regular feedback to the TAC WHAM and the TAC
• previous meetings held on 10/12/2002, 09/09/2003
• next meeting foreseen on 01/10/2003
• An Info-Day with private sector in 4Q2003

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THANK YOU!

• TESTA web site
• http//testa.eu-admin.net (via TESTA access)
• IDA web site
• http//europa.eu.int/ISPO/ida/
• TESTA CIRCA interest group
• http//forum.europa.eu.int/Members/irc/ida/testa/h
  ome (restricted access)
• IDA project management
• European Commission, DG Enterprise D.2
• Entr-IDA_at_cec.eu.int