The INSPIRE proposal aims at enhancing the European potential in the field of security by assuring the protection of critical information infrastructures through the identification of their vulnerabilities and the development of innovative techniques for securing networked process control systems. To increase the resilience of such systems INSPIRE will develop traffic engineering  algorithms, self-reconfigurable architectures and diagnosis and recovery techniques. Therefore, the core idea of the INSPIRE proposal is to protect critical information infrastructures by appropriately configuring, managing, and securing the communication network which interconnect the distributed  control systems. A working prototype will be implemented to be used as final demonstrator of specific scenarios. INSPIRE will also contribute to standardisation process in order to foster multi-operator interoperability and coordinated strategies for securing lifeline systems.

A prototype of the INSPIRE security toolbox will be released during the project. It will be used to build a final demonstrator showing specific scenarios and will be validated by both the INSPIRE partners and the members of Group of Experts supporting the proposal.