Athene (research center)

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Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 17.2 ″  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 17.6 ″  E

ATHENA
ATHENA
Athene (research center)
Category: research Institute
Carrier: Fraunhofer Society
Seat of the wearer: Munich
Facility location: Darmstadt
Arose from: European Center for Security and Privacy by Design (EC SPRIDE) and Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt (CASED)
Type of research: Basic research, application-oriented research
Areas of expertise: IT security
Management: Michael Waidner, Dieter W. Fellner, Mira Mezini, Harald Baier
Homepage: www.athene-center.de

ATHENE , formerly the Center for Research in Security and Privacy (CRISP), is the national research center for applied cybersecurity and the largest research center for IT security in Europe. It deals with key issues of cybersecurity in the digitization of the state, economy and society. Michael Waidner is the director of ATHENE .

Researchers at ATHENE established new international research priorities in IT security research, post-quantum cryptography and IT security of large systems, which is ATHENE's research focus. So far, isolated aspects such as individual protocols or encryption methods have mostly been examined. With the focus on the IT security of large systems, the research facility aims to achieve a measurable increase in IT security. The research spectrum ranges from basic research to application.

The research center is based in Darmstadt .

organization

ATHENE is an institution of the Fraunhofer Society and an alliance of the Darmstadt facilities Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) and Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (IGD) and the Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt) and the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (HDA).

It is one of three competence centers for IT security financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and serves as the national research center for applied cybersecurity .

ATHENE is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art (HMWK) .

Board

The board consists of representatives from the institutes:

history

The history of ATHENE goes back to 1961 when the German Computer Center (DRZ) was founded in Darmstadt. At that time, the German data center was equipped with one of the most powerful mainframe computers in Germany, making it the first mainframe data center in Germany. What was special about the DRZ was that it could be used by universities and scientific institutions for research purposes. After the Arpanet spread, communication between the machines became the focus of research in the DRZ. In 1973 the DRZ merged with other research institutions in this area to form the Society for Mathematics and Data Processing (GMD). The company founded the Institute for Remote Data Transmission, which was renamed the Institute for Tele-Cooperation Technology in 1992. Under the direction of Heinz Thielmann, the institute increasingly dealt with questions of IT security and with the advent of the Internet, IT security became more and more important, so that in 1998 it was renamed the Institute for Safe Tele-Cooperation. In 2001 the GMD merged with the Fraunhofer Society. In 2004 the Institute for Secure Tele-Cooperation became the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (Fraunhofer SIT). Claudia Eckert was the founding director .

In 1975, José Luis Encarnação founded the Interactive Graphics Systems Research Group (GRIS) in the Computer Science Department at the Technical University of Darmstadt. In 1984, GRIS worked together with the Center for Computer Graphics. A working group that emerged from this collaboration was taken over by the Fraunhofer Society and in 1987 the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (Fraunhofer IGD) emerged. The founding director of Fraunhofer IGD was José Luis Encarnação. The institute was one of the first research institutes to deal with Internet technologies.

In 1996 Johannes Buchmann was appointed to the chair for theoretical computer science in the computer science department. The year is considered to be the hour of birth for IT security at the Technical University of Darmstadt. In 2001 Claudia Eckert, who at the same time headed Fraunhofer SIT from 2001 to 2011, was appointed professor for security in information technology at the Technical University of Darmstadt. It was an endowed professorship of the Horst Görtz Foundation. In 2003 the Darmstadt universities and research institutions founded the Competence Center for Applied Security Technology (CAST), the largest network for cybersecurity in German-speaking countries .

The institutionalization of IT security took place in 2002 with the establishment of the Darmstadt Center for IT Security (DZI) under the leadership of Johannes Buchmann and Claudia Eckert , which became the Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt (CASED) in 2008 . The founding director of CASED was Johannes Buchmann. In 2010 Michael Waidner became director of Fraunhofer SIT . The European Center for Security and Privacy by Design (EC SPRIDE) was founded in 2011 as a result of the efforts of Buchmann and Waidners. CASED and EC SPRIDE were part of LOEWE , the research excellence program of the state of Hesse. Buchmann and Waidner developed the centers into the largest research institutions for IT security in Europe.

In 2012, Intel established the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Secure Computing at the Technical University of Darmstadt. It was the first collaborative IT security research facility that Intel established outside of the United States .

In 2014, the German Research Foundation (DFG) established the CROSSING Collaborative Research Center at the Technical University of Darmstadt, which deals with cryptography-based security solutions. The first speaker for CROSSING was Johannes Buchmann.

In 2015, CASED and EC SPRIDE merged to form the Center for Research in Security and Privacy (CRISP). In the same year, the German Research Foundation set up the graduate college "Privacy and Trust for Mobile Users" at the end of Max Mühlhäuser.

In 2016, the Federal Ministry of Finance decided to make the Darmstadt region an outstanding place for the digital transformation of the economy. The Federal Ministry of Finance has set up the "Digital Hub Cybersecurity" and "Digital Hub FinTech" centers in the region, which are intended to network companies, research institutions and start-ups.

Johannes Buchmann and his team established the field of post-quantum cryptography internationally . In 2018, the XMSS signature procedure, which the researchers developed at the TU Darmstadt, became the first international standard for post-quantum procedures. XMSS is the first future-proof and practical signature method with minimal security requirements. Work on it began in 2003.

CRISP was upgraded to the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity on January 1, 2019 and later renamed ATHENE.

Research areas

ATHENE's main themes

  • Large software systems - large amounts of data
  • Cyber-physical systems and critical (internet) infrastructures
  • Global mobile platforms
  • Big data with measurable security and privacy

Research priorities

  • Cyber ​​security analysis and defense mechanisms
  • Threat analyzes and practical security assessment
  • biometrics
  • Cloud security
  • Digital forensics
  • Industry 4.0
  • Cryptography
  • Proven security
  • Privacy and trust
  • Risk assessment and management
  • Digital media security
  • Safety in the automotive industry
  • Secure software systems
  • Internet and critical infrastructure security
  • Security of mobile and cyber-physical systems
  • Social and ethical aspects of IT security
  • Usable security
  • Economic aspects of IT security

Claude Shannon Fellowship Program

The Claude Shannon Fellowship program enables young scientists at ATHENE to set up their own research group. The program is based on the Emmy Noether Program of the German Research Foundation . The program is named after Claude Shannon , the founder of information theory .

Fellows have been:

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b committees. Retrieved October 4, 2019 .
  3. ^ Institute profile . Retrieved October 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ lighthouse projects. Retrieved October 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Cybersecurity profile area: CRISP - Center for Research in Security and Privacy. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
  6. ↑ History of the institute. Retrieved October 31, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Interactive Graphics Systems Group: Overview. Retrieved October 31, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD). Retrieved October 31, 2019 .
  9. ↑ IT security |. Accessed November 4, 2019 (German).
  10. ^ Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Secure Computing: Institute. Retrieved October 31, 2019 .
  11. ↑ The curriculum vitae of Johannes Alfred Buchmann. Retrieved October 31, 2019 .
  12. ↑ profile cyber security: CASED - Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Cybersecurity profile area: EC SPRIDE - European Center for Security and Privacy by Design. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .
  14. ^ TU Darmstadt: A recipe against the power of quantum computers. Retrieved October 11, 2019 .
  15. ↑ heise online: Digital signatures: First standard for post-quantum signatures. Retrieved October 11, 2019 .
  16. ^ TU Darmstadt: A recipe against the power of quantum computers. Retrieved October 31, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Buchmann J., Dahmen E., Hülsing A. (2011) XMSS - A Practical Forward Secure Signature Scheme Based on Minimal Security Assumptions. In: Yang BY. (eds) Post-Quantum Cryptography. PQCrypto 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7071. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
  18. ↑ Profile. Retrieved December 3, 2019 .
  19. ^ Profile Area Cybersecurity: CRISP - Center for Research in Security and Privacy. Retrieved October 6, 2019 .
  20. ↑ New ATHENE research center: Fraunhofer and Darmstadt universities promote cybersecurity for successful digitization. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, December 4, 2019, accessed on December 4, 2019 .
  21. ↑ a b research areas. Retrieved June 22, 2019 .