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ATHENE researcher receives Copernicus Award 2020
ATHENE researcher Prof. Sebastian Faust from the TU Darmstadt will receive the Copernicus Prize 2020 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the Stiftung für die polnische Wissenschaft (FNP) for his services to German-Polish cooperation in science. The prize, which is endowed with 200,000 EURO, goes equally to him and to Prof. Stefan Dziembowski from the University of Warsaw. They receive the award for their outstanding cooperation in the field of theoretical cryptography and IT security.
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ATHENE researcher explains the realization of obligatory data deletion in CRM-systems in a BvD-News article
"Which obligatory data deletion responsibilities does a company have to comply with in terms of the data protection law?" "What does 'obligatory data deletion' mean in terms of the data protection law?" And "How will the deletion of this data be realized in CRM systems?" These as well as other questions are answered by ATHENE researcher Annika Selzer of the Fraunhofer SIT and Tugba Koc Macit, Junior Consultant at AGOR AG Frankfurt, in an article in the newest issue of the Verbandsmagazin des Berufsverbands der Datenschutzbeauftragten Deutschlands (BvD) e.V..
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COTECH receives funding for their product idea Hardware Security SDK
The subsidy program StartUpSecure of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) supports the development of safe and easy passwordless logins for businesses. Upon their application, COTECH was closely assisted and advised by the team of the incubator program StartUpSecure | ATHENE, benefitting from their technical and economic expertise.
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Three innovations for more IT security
Passwordless logins, management solutions across the cloud, and the automatic recognition and removal of vulnerabilities in IT – three novel product ideas are meant to enhance the security of IT in businesses. The subsidy program StartUpSecure by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (GDPR) supports projects by the startups COTECH, meshcloud and Synamic Technologies.
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Hack@Sec2020
ATHENE-researcher Prof. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi from the TU Darmstadt is one of the organizers of this year's Hack@Sec competition. TU Darmstadt is also represented in the student organization team with three students. The goal of this competition is to develop practical and effective solutions and computer-aided tools to identify such vulnerabilities more efficiently in buggy SoCs.
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ATHENE supports it-sa
ATHENE is an official supporter of it-sa, the leading trade fair for IT security in Europe. ATHENE-CEO Prof. Michael Waidner says: "As Europe’s leading trade fair for IT security, it-sa is an important platform that enables us to present our security solutions to representatives of industry and public bodies and conduct discussions with them. This dialogue is very important for a research.“
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ATHENE organises 1st ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Traffic Manipulation
With Prof. Michael Waidner and Dr. Haya Shulman two ATHENE researchers are on the organizing committee of the first ACM SIGCOMM ManTra'20 workshop, which will take place in the context of SIGCOMM 2020. The SIGCOMM is the most important annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM). It focuses on applications, technologies, architectures and protocols for computer communication
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NeSPA student project receives award
In the category "Students" NeSPA was awarded with the third place in this year's TU ideas competition. In the project, a password manager generates an individual, secure password from a master password and a purpose of use, thereby dispensing with password storage and synchronisation between the respective end devices. The prize is endowed with 1,000 euros and was awarded during the Startup & Innovation Day 2019. First and third place went to the WriteForMe team and Kaipara AdVrenture.
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Perun takes second place in TU ideas competition
In the "Scientists" category, Team Perun was awarded with the second place in this year's TU Ideas Competition for its "ProChain" project. In the StartUpSecure-funded project, high-performance block chain systems are being developed that can process more transactions without waiting times at significantly reduced fees compared to current (payment) systems. The prize is endowed with 2,000 euros. First and third place went to the Sooqua and Caliberation teams.
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ATHENE researcher is co-author of the Handbook of Vascular Biometrics
The first edition of the Handbook of Vascular Biometry describes the current state of the art in this field. The handbook offers students, scientists and engineers a detailed insight into different areas of vascular biometry. In recent years, so-called vascular biometry has increasingly developed into an independent field of research and is considered an attractive alternative to established biometric modalities such as face recognition or fingerprint recognition.
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