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Table of contents
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Selected Highlights
	An introduction to critical infrastructures
	Internet security and critical infrastructures
	Location -enhanced 112 in Europe - interview
	The role of OSS in protecting the network
	Milliseconds are vital - interview
	TETRA and TETRAPOL

While this issue of Eurescom mess@ge was edited, the Olympic games in Athens were in full swing. There was plenty of media coverage on the security efforts to protect the sites of the games from terrorist attacks. An aspect which did not catch the attention of the media was the huge challenge the Greek communication infrastructure faced because of the games, even without the Damokles’ sword of terrorist attacks. This event and new research results triggered our decision to focus on critical telecommunication infrastructures in the cover theme of this issue.

Our authors may be less known to the world than the Olympic athletes from Athens, but their expertise and importance in regard to the cover theme is of Olympic dimensions.

Luis Cardoso, chairman of the ETNO working group on Fraud Control and Network Security from Portugal Telecom, gives an overview on Internet infrastructure and fraud. Two experts from the EU CGALIES working group present in an interview the state of the art regarding the enhanced 112 European emergency call. In another interview, the CEO of the TETRA MoU Association, John Cox, reveals important facts on secure communication systems.

Related to our cover theme are the two articles under “European issues”. In the first, we feature the new European Network and Information Security Agency, ENISA, and in the second we present an overview on European security research.

In our “In focus” section, we present for the first time not a member company of Eurescom but an international organisation, which is relatively young, but highly influential: the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF).

The further content of this issue includes contributions on Eurescom study NEMOGS and Eurescom project GENIE, a tutorial on ENUM, and the “A bit beyond article” on stealth wallpaper.

We hope you will find something interesting in this issue and would appreciate your feedback on any of the articles. If you would like to suggest a topic or offer a contribution for Eurescom mess@ge, this is equally welcome. 

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