Abstract: This paper, entitled Challenges for the Protection of Critical ICTBased Financial Infrastructures for the next 5 years, will describe the outcomes of a recently held workshop of the same name held on 24-25th September 2007 in Frankfurt, Germany. The workshop was well attended by stakeholders from the financial industry and researchers from the ICT Security and Critical Information Infrastructure Protection areas. The participants over the two day workshop held working group sessions in order to discuss and elaborate a strategic plan and research challenges associated with "massively distributed critical financial infrastructure protection (FIP)" and "trust in new value added business chains". It is the intention of the authors to present this paper, if accepted, in the submitted workshop entitled Converging Technical and Non-Technical Consumer Needs in ICT Trust, Security and Dependability across disciplines.
Bernhard M. Hämmerli, Henning H. Arendt