The public kick-off of the Austrian flagship project IoT4CPS took place at TU Vienna on February 1, 2018.

After some welcome notes from Johannes Fröhlich (Vice Rector, TU Vienna), Helmut Leopold (Head of Center for Digital Safety and Security, AIT) and Andreas Eckel (Team Lead Grants, TTTech) we looked into the contents and aims of the project.

The auditorium was then invited to join interactive workshops (one of them led by Katharina Krombholz, SBA) based on the project´s main topics. The official part of the kick-off was eventually concluded by short presentations of the brainstorming outcomes and an expert panel discussion.

Today we presented how exiting it can be to study information security. Katharina Pfeffer and Edgar Weippl gave an introduction to cryptography and showed how hackers are portrayed in movies in contrast to how they really work. FIT (Frauen in die Technik) is an initiative to encourage female high school students to chose technical programs at universities.

Stefan Jakoubi gives one of the keynotes at today´s Business Treff focusing on the implementation of the general data protection regulation.

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Johanna Ullrich joined DBT´s first event of the year dealing with IT-Security.

In conversation with other experts she made interconnection of physical and automation systems as well possible consequences a subject of discussion.

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Wilfried Mayer and Edgar Weippl will work on our newly accepted FWF project “FuOnA: Future of Online Anonymity”

This project aims to (i) understand the foundations of online anonymity, (ii) study the proposed technical mechanisms in detail, and (iii) further extend the schemes which are able to work at scale and protect the online personae of its users.