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On the track of insurance fraudsters
In a project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, researchers at Fraunhofer SIT have developed three technologies that enable insurance companies to automatically detect dubious insurance claims. The new methods allow images, texts and financial data to be examined. The first insurance companies in Germany are already testing the technologies.
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Together against attacks by quantum computers
SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) announced a cooperation between the SAP Security Research organization and the TU Darmstadt to investigate quantum-resistant security technologies for software development processes at SAP one of the leading security centers in Germany, to investigate quantum-resistant security technologies for software development processes at SAP.
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Policy Paper on DORIAN Project published
In the policy paper series of the research group "Forum Privatheit", scientists from the interdisciplinary research project DORIAN publish a paper that explains how disinformation can be detected and contained. CRISP scientist Dr. Michael Kreutzer, Fraunhofer SIT, is one of the authors of the paper.
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CRISP researchers ensure safe infrastructure in agriculture
As part of the "GeoBox I" project, approved by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), Prof. Christian Reuter, head of the department "Wissenschaft und Technik für Frieden und Sicherheit (PEASEC)" at TU Darmstadt, works together with several project partners on standardization and reliability of the infrastructure needed in agriculture. After all, even in agriculture there is a conversation about "safety-critical infrastructure" - an attack can lead to production losses and food shortages. In order to prevent these, scientists are developing a prototype for a standardized and resilient infrastructure in which the data is kept decentralized and regionally networked. Federal Minister Julia Klöckner handed over the funding decision to the project managers today.
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CAST-Advancement Award IT-Security 2018
For many years, CAST e.V. has been supporting the IT security newcomers in Germany with the invitation to tender for the CAST Förderpreis. Amongst this year's finalists are four works by Darmstadt students. The work was supervised by the TU Darmstadt, one in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD.
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Keeping health data under lock and key
CRISP researchers from the TU Darmstadt, who work together in the CROSSING Collaborative Research Center of the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), have developed a solution that will ensure decades of safe storage for sensitive health data in a joint project with Japanese and Canadian partners. An initial prototype was presented during a recent conference in Beijing, China. The system will go into trial operation in Japan in the coming weeks.
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