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Successful submissions on ARES 2021
Researchers from the research institutions involved in ATHENE, Fraunhofer SIT, TU Darmstadt and Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, were able to place several papers at the "International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security", ARES for short. The conference highlights various aspects of security, with a special focus on the crucial link between availability, reliability and security.
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Fraunhofer study on the IT security of political parties
At the end of 2020, ATHENE launched a study on its own initiative to support the parties currently represented in the Bundestag in assessing and improving their security against cyber attacks. The project is being carried out for ATHENE by staff of the participating Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT and led by Dr. Haya Shulman, head of the department Cybersecurity Analytics and Defences at Fraunhofer SIT.
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Successful submissions at USENIX 2021
In the meantime, all papers accepted at the 30th USENIX Security Symposium, or USENIX, have been determined. In total, six papers developed within the framework of ATHENE research were accepted at the A*-ranked conference. ATHENE researchers from TU Darmstadt and Fraunhofer SIT are involved in the papers.
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Premiere for Fraunhofer CyberStar Award
The Fraunhofer CyberStar Award (FCSA) was presented for the first time this year, honoring outstanding academic theses in applied cybersecurity from Israel. Prize winners are Dr. Eyal Ronen from Tel Aviv University and Anatoly Shusterman from Ben Gurion University. The award ceremony took place as part of the virtually German-Israeli Cyber Conference, in the presence of Yigal Unna, Director General of the Israeli National Cyber Directorate, Arne Schönbohm, President of the Federal Office for Information Security BSI, and numerous other experts.
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Successful completion of the first round of Booster - the new funding program for cybersecurity founders
The winning teams of the first round of the booster have been determined. Applications for another round are now possible at sus-beratung@athene-center.de.
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Successful submissions on CSCW 2021
Three papers authored by ATHENE researcher Prof. Christian Reuter, head of the PEASEC research group at the TU Darmstadt, and his team were accepted at the 24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). At the Core A ranked conference, researchers and practitioners exchange ideas on the technical, social, material, and theoretical challenges of designing technologies to support collaborative work and life activities.
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