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Security Business Lunch

Increasing digitization and connectivity in all industries is making companies more vulnerable to cybercrime, so privacy and cyberdefence are more important than ever. At Security Business Lunch, attendees learn how companies can protect themselves against data breaches and cybercrime. Prof. Martin Steinebach, Fraunhofer SIT, gives a lecture on "Training staff: detecting attacks and facilitating forensic examinations."

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Use-A-PQClib: Usable APIs for post-quantum cryptography libraries

The working group User-Centered Security (UCS) headed by Prof. Andreas Heinemann, University of Darmstadt, is launching a new project. As part of the Use-A-PQClib project, the scientists, together with Darmstadt-based MTG AG, are designing and implementing an easy-to-use programming interface (API) for PQC procedures.

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Successful submissions to Asiacrypt 2018

Once again this year, the submissions of the CRISP scientists at the prestigious Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security (Asiacrypt) conference are successful. Asiacrypt is the top international conference dealing with theories and applications of cryptology and information security.

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Two special issues at IJISCRAM

Prof. Christian Reuter, CYSEC [at] TU Darmstadt, and dr. Jens Pottebaum, University of Padernborn, are publishers of two special editions of the International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM). One issue deals with IT support for crisis and continuity management and the other with crisis continuity management.

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ACM CCS

The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS) is the world's largest academic conference on communications security and cybersecurity (CCS). Also this year numerous submissions of the Darmstadt cybersecurity experts were accepted.

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Mensch and Computer 2018

Researchers from the working group "Science and Technology for Peace and Security (PEASEC) led by Prof. Christian Reuter, CYSEC [at] TU Darmstadt, were able to place five papers on Human and Computer 2018. Prof. Reuter is also the main organizer of the one day workshop "Human-machine interaction in safety critical systems", which takes place within the framework of Human and Computer 2018.

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CRISP Flagship Project "Secure Internet Infrastructures" places 3 Papers

From theflagship project "Safe Internet Infrastructures" led by Prof. Haya Shulman, Fraunhofer SIT, three papers were accepted at top international conferences. As part of the project, new mechanisms are being developed to make it easier to redirect Internet traffic for eavesdropping via prepared Internet nodes.

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Cybersecurity and Cyberconflict: State of the Art Research Conference

International researchers specializing in the strategic (Miss) use of cyberspace by state and non-state actors will analyze the governance challenges involved at the conference. Prof. Christian Reuter and Marc-André Kaufhold, M.Sc., both CYSEC [at] TU Darmstadt, talk in the panel "Cyber-violence" about "Cultural Violence and Peace in Social Media".

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Online Course to secure the Company's IT Infrastructure

CRISP scientists from Fraunhofer SIT have already prepared the first web training for IT-Grundschutz and have now completely revised and modernized it on behalf of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). The online course offers a practice-oriented and compact introduction to information security with IT baseline protection.

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HSFK Annual Conference 2018: Verification in Crisis, the Crisis of Verification

This year's HSFK conference of the Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research has the motto "Verification in Crisis - Crisis of Verification. New Technology as a Hurdle to and Enabler of Verification in Arms Control " and will address the role of new technologies in arms control. Prof. Christian Reuter, CYSEC [at] TU Darmstadt, talks about "Verification in Cyberspace" in the panel Emerging Technologies and the Impact of Software.

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