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Start of the application phase for ATHENE Startup Award UP23@it-sa

From July 1 to 31, 2023, startups from the DACH region can apply for the ATHENE Startup Award UP23@it-sa. Startups from Germany, Austria and Switzerland that deal with IT security or data protection are eligible to participate. The online application is possible at: www.itsa365.de/up-award.

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Accepted papers on ACM SIGMOD 2023

Three papers involving ATHENE researchers were accepted at the A*-ranked 2023 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference. The annual conference is a leading international forum for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore innovative ideas and results and to share techniques, tools, and experiences. The conference offers a comprehensive technical program with presentations from research and industry, tutorials, demos and workshops.

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ATHENE researchers publish their work in the journal IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society

ATHENE researchers at TU Darmstadt are working on a privacy-friendly approach for state actors to compare exploit inventories without disclosing national secrets. This approach can be used to enhance cybersecurity for civilians, as known exploits that are identified by multiple states can be released for remediation. The method provides a practical solution to cyber arms control. The research was published in the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society journal and was awarded the 2022 CROSSING Collaboration Award.

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Successful submission to PLDI 2023

ATHENE researchers are placing a paper at the highly ranked 44th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2023). The conference is the leading forum in the field of programming language and programming systems research.

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Successful submissions at ICSE 2023

Two papers written in collaboration with ATHENE researchers were accepted at the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering. ICSE, the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, is the leading conference on software engineering. Since 1975, ICSE has provided a forum where researchers, practitioners, and educators come together to present and discuss the latest innovations, trends, experiences, and issues in the field of software engineering.

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Eleven innovative cybersecurity startups in next round of accelerator program

The accelerator program "SpeedUpSecure" promotes startups with innovative solutions in the field of cybersecurity. Eleven startups qualified for the program this year and will undergo a five-month intensive and targeted training program starting in early May. They will have access to a strong network of experts from business and research, who will be involved in the accelerator as mentors, jurors, coaches or with keynote speeches.

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ChatGPT or human author?

ATHENE researchers at Fraunhofer SIT are researching ways to help recognize texts created with ChatGPT. Among other things, the text forensics experts are working with a self-developed method for authorship verification, COAV: Originally, it was used to detect plagiarism in scientific papers, for example. Since COAV compares texts on a stylistic basis, this method can also be used to identify a specific "author," namely ChatGPT. This is used to calculate the distances between texts using similarities of text modules and typical consecutive letter strings: Is the text closer to GPT or closer to a human?

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Fraunhofer SIT opens new location in Münster

Fraunhofer SIT's research activities are being expanded to include another core topic, cybersecurity in medicine. Under the direction of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Schinzel, a new research department is being established for this purpose at the new Münster location in Westphalia. Prof. Schinzel has held a professorship at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Münster University of Applied Sciences since 2013, and is considered one of the leading experts on applied cryptography, cybersecurity and the security of medical information technology.

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ATHENE researchers place paper at USENIX 2023

ATHENE is again successfully represented at this year's USENIX. Several papers from ATHENE contributing researchers were accepted at the 32. USENIX Security Symposium. USENIX is one of the four most important conferences in the field of security. Scientists, practitioners, system administrators and programmers from around the world gather to share the latest advances in security and privacy of computer systems and networks.

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AIGIS-Lab

ATHENE scientist Prof. Haya Shulman is the coordinator of the "Real Lab for Modern Cybersecurity in Research Institutions" (AIGIS) project, in which two research institutions are being used as examples to demonstrate what modern cybersecurity architecture can look like. To this end, the researchers are developing a requirements analysis for the construction of an exemplary zero-trust architecture and its evaluation in a real laboratory. To this end, representative substructures in the form of networks, central infrastructures and various institutes will first be selected in both research institutions and analyzed with regard to their requirements. Based on this, the researchers will develop an appropriate, modern cybersecurity architecture.

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