About IAIK

The Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications (IAIK) focuses on information security and adjacent domains. Roughly 60 employees at IAIK conduct research, teach students, and provide consultancy for private as well as public organizations. The institute is part of the Faculty of Computer Science at the Graz University of Technology in Austria.

Research

IAIK researches information security in a broad context: Researchers work in the areas of cryptography, e-government, e-identity, trusted computing, RFID security, secure hardware implementations of cryptographic algorithms, side-channel analysis, network security, and design and formal verification.

Consultancy

As an advisor, IAIK offers expert knowledge in rapidly-evolving information technologies with respect to information security, and consults public and private institutions, both, national and international. Considering the migration towards a global information society, such advisory services are of paramount importance. IAIK emphasizes the independent position of its consulting activities.

Teaching

All course topics are aligned to IAIK's research interests. In addition, the teachers at IAIK emphasize new teaching methods: Master students work in teams on projects and follow an inter-disciplinary approach, usually on material related to up-to-date research problems. This teaching method corresponds to the dynamics of knowledge creation and is able to face the short life cycles of relevant knowledge. Moreover, this method proves also adequate when trying to cope with the requirements from the industry at one end, and the goal to offer a proper scientific education at the other end.