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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.
read moreHack@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.
read moreATHENE 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.“
read moreATHENE 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
read moreNeSPA 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.
read morePerun 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.
read moreATHENE 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.
read moreIntroduction of ATHENE
The National Research Center for Applied Cybesecurity (formerly CRISP) has been renamed ATHENE. During a visit to Darmstadt, Federal Research Minister Anja Karliczek and Hessian Minister of Science Angela Dorn learned about the new research center and the challenges of cybersecurity, which will be addressed by the research and solutions developed by ATHENE.
read moreDeutscher IT-Sicherheitspreis 2020 open for submissions
The Deutscher IT-Sicherheitspreis of the Horst Görtz Stiftung will be awarded for the 8th time in 2020. With 200.000 EURO in total, it is the largest monetary award for cybersecurity and privacy in Germany. Registration is possible as of now. The donors are looking for innovation which has a high potential for commercial exploitation and proves how cybersecurity made in Germany can have an impact on the market.
read moreCyber Range Training
The next real attack shows how well your IT team is prepared for an emergency - or a day on a cyber range, a hyper-realistic attack simulation. Here, IT teams can be put into realistic attack situations, the team behavior in stressful situations can be tested and security competencies can be improved. Fraunhofer SIT combines one of the world's leading simulation platforms with current research results and innovative start-up ideas to a new type of training program - the Fraunhofer Cyber Range.
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