Working Group »Security and Privacy«

Security and Privacy

Information systems become more and more important in critical infrastructures, while the Internet has evolved to a critical infrastructure itself. The secure operation of these infrastructures is vital and their failure can have severe impacts up to the loss of human lives.
Security refers to the fact that protection goals are achieved in the presence of malicious attacks and system failures. Typical security goals can be confidentiality, integrity, accountability, and availability. Security and privacy in information systems addresses both technical and organizational aspects, such as building and establishing security concepts and security infrastructures as well as risk analysis and risk management. Privacy can be a conflicting goal to security, but they can also benefit from each other. Hence, it is necessary to balance both when developing secure information systems.

Research groups

• Security in Distributed Systems (SVS), Prof. Dr. Hannes Federrath
• IT-Security and Security Management (ISS), Prof. Dr. Mathias Fischer

Research topics

• Security in distributed systems
• Information security management systems
• Data protection and anonymity
• Cyber security and Cyber defense
• Digital Rights Management systems
• Security of mobile devices and in mobile systems
• Malware and Botnets

Teaching goals

• Security in distributed systems
• IT security and IT security management
• Cryptography
• Security of mobile systems
• Data protection, anonymity and unobservability in the Internet
• Intrusion Detection and Prevention