1.2 Grand Challenges

1.2 Grand Challenges

Although short-term projects1 may have an immediate impact on the market, such impact is usually incremental and may not be long-lasting as it focuses on an immediate problem that may not be so relevant, say, five to ten years down the road. To make fundamental breakthroughs in the area of cyber security, we have proposed several long-term “Grand Challenge” problems. To select a small number of “Grand Challenges”, the members of the Task Force, along with the members of the broader constituency proposed several such “Grand Challenges”, from which the following were selected:

• Give users assurance about the security of their devices • If it can be done anonymously in the offline world, it can also be done anonymously online • Make artificial intelligence safe for people • Make systems resilient under attack • Enhance the general public’s awareness of cybersecurity

1When we say short-term projects we mean projects that last two to three years and have a funding of two to three million euros.