Although not anymore directly involved with IAIK, our alumni definitely deserve credit. They all have moved on with their career and went for other challenges. We are grateful for their contribution to IAIK's success.
Thomas Rössler (ALUMNI)
Curriculum vitae
Thomas Rössler is a member of the e-Government unit of the Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications (IAIK), Graz University of Technology. Having earned a Master's degree in Telematics from the Graz University of Technology, he is currently working in the field of IT security with a focus on topics concerning the Austrian e-Government initiative. He also contributes to several e-Government projects – e.g. the Austrian identification system (Austrian Citizen Card) – and supports the development of the Austrian ICT-Strategy. Since September 2005, he is deputy coordinator of the e-Government Innovation Center (EGIZ) which is a joint initiative of the Austrian Federal Chancellery and the Graz University of Technology. EGIZ supports the Austrian Federal Chancellery in further developing the Austrian ICT-Strategy by research and innovation.
Education
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| 1983-1987 | Primary School in St.Veit/Glan, Austria |
| 1987-1991 | Secondary School in St.Veit/Glan, Austria |
| 1991-1996 | Technical College (Telecommunication Technique and Electronics) in Klagenfurt, Austria |
| 1996-1997 | Service at the Austrian Armed Forces |
| 1997-2002 | Student of Telematics at Graz University of Technology, Austria |
| 2002 | Graduated to Dipl.-Ing. (corresponds to Master of Science) with distinction at Graz University of Technology |
| 2003-2007 | Working on doctoral thesis concerning e-voting (Project "eVita") |
| 2007 | Graduation to Dr. techn. (Ph.D.) with distinction at Graz University of Technology |
Experiences
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| 1999,2000 | Philips Klagenfurt, Austria R&D: Developement of drivers for electroluminescence-lamps (FFF-project) |
| 2001 | Philips Semiconductors Gratkorn, Austria Developement of an USB based test-box for contactless identification systems (RF-smartcards) |
| 2001/02 | Students Project at IAIK (project term) |
| 2002 | Master Thesis at IAIK: "Identification and Authentication in Networks enabling Single Sign-On" (available here) |
| since 2003 | Working on several topics concerning E-Government and IT-Security at IAIK and for A-SIT |
| since 2005 | Deputy Coordinator of the E-Government Innovation Center (EGIZ) at Graz University of Technology. |
Various Publications, Reports and Talks
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| November 2003 | Rössler T. "Sicherheitstechnische Aspekte im Projekt ADOamt", Projektvorstellung ADOamt, OCG, Vienna, November 5th 2003. |
| November 2003 | Rössler T. "Das österreichische IT-Sicherheitshandbuch - Vorstellung Version 2.1", Vortrag im Rahmen der Vorstellung des neuen, überarbeiteten IT-Sicherheitshandbuchs, Vienna, November 14th 2003. |
| April 2004 | Rössler T. "E-Voting: A Survey and Introduction", A-SIT - Technology Survey, 2004. |
| June 2004 | Rössler T. "Umfassende IT-Sicherheit - Anwendung des Österreichischen Sicherheitshandbuchs", Vortrag auf der Sicherheitskonferenz der Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit (AGES), Vienna, June 7th 2004. |
| September 2004 | Rössler T. "IT-Sicherheitsmaßnahmen im Prozessmanagement", Vortrag am 8. Treffen der strategischen BOC Partner, Vienna, September 9th to 10th 2004. |
| September 2004 | Rössler T. "Das österreichische Sicherheitshandbuch", Presentation at the 1st Austrian IT-Security Day (IT-Sicherheitstag), LAKESIDE Science &Technology Park, Klagenfurt, September 22th 2004. |
| October 2004 | Rössler T. "E-Government und Sicherheitsbegleitung", Vortrag am Symposium "5 Jahre A-SIT", Wien, October 28th 2004. |
| October 2004 | Rössler T. "Integrating – The E-Government Webshop ", Presentation at the "The Austrian E-Government Experience" conference, Vienna, October 29th 2004. |
| November 2004 | Rössler T. "Einführung in XML", Presentation at the E-Government Workshop Graz, Workshop, Graz, November 8th 2004. |
| February 2005 | Rössler T. MODINIS-idm Project Presentation, 3rd MODINIS-idm Workshop, Vienna, Austria, 9 February 2005. |
| June 2005 | Rössler T. "Die österreichische Bürgerkarte", Presentation at the TEC-Day 2005, Graz, Austria, 10 June 2005. |
| July 2005 | Rössler T. "E-ID Case Study Austria", Article in SYNeRGY, publication of the European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry and the IDABC Unit, Brussels, Belgium, Issue July 03-2005, 2005. |
| November 2005 | Rössler T. "Einsatz der Bürgerkarte in Unternehmen", Presentation at the 2nd Austrian IT-Security Day (IT-Sicherheitstag), Graz, Austria, 9 November 2005. |
| June 2006 | Rössler T. E-Gov-Bus Project Presentation , Presentation at the FP6 – eGovernment Projects Fair, Brussels, Belgium, 20 June 2006. |
| November 2006 | Rössler T. "Bürgerkarte and More", Presentation at the 3rd Austrian IT-Security Day (IT-Sicherheitstag), Vienna, Austria, 8 November 2006. |
| December 2006 | Rössler T. "A Roadmap towards e-Democracy", Version 1.0 Proposal for the IWG Meeting of the Ad hoc Committee on e-democracy (CAHDE) in Vienna, Directorate General of Political Affairs Project “Good Governance in the Information Society”, Council of Europe, Vienna, Austria, 13 to 14 December 2006. |
| February 2007 | Rössler T. "MODINIS-idm in Retrospect", 5th MODINIS-idm Workshop, Brussel, Belgium, 8 February 2007. |
| February 2007 | Rössler T. "Case-Study: Austrian Citizen Card", 5th MODINIS-idm Workshop, Brussel, Belgium, 8 February 2007. |
| April 2007 | Rössler T. "Identity Trends in e-Government: Business, Context Austria", Liberty Alliance, E-Government Workshop, Brussel, Belgium, 23 April 2007. |
| April 2007 | Rössler T. "Real World Case Study Presentations and Mapping to SAML/Liberty Specifications, Context Austria", Liberty Alliance, E-Government Workshop, Brussel, Belgium, 23 April 2007. |
| July 2007 | Rössler T. "A Roadmap towards e-Democracy", Version 1.1 Discussion Paper for the IWG Meeting of the Ad hoc Committee on e-democracy (CAHDE), Directorate General of Political Affairs Project “Good Governance in the Information Society”, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 2 to 3 July 2007. |
| November 2007 | Rössler T. "E-Government 2007++", Presentation at the 4th Austrian IT-Security Day (IT-Sicherheitstag), Klagenfurt, Austria, 7 November 2007. |
| December 2007 | Rössler T. "A Roadmap towards e-Democracy", Version 1.2 Discussion Paper for the IWG Meeting of the Ad hoc Committee on e-democracy (CAHDE), Directorate General of Political Affairs Project “Good Governance in the Information Society”, Council of Europe, Vienna, 13 to 14 December 2007. |
| February 2008 | Rössler T. "A Roadmap towards e-Democracy", Version 1.3 Discussion Paper for the IWG Meeting of the Ad hoc Committee on e-democracy (CAHDE), Directorate General of Political Affairs Project “Good Governance in the Information Society”, Council of Europe, London, 26 to 27 February 2008. |
Publications
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| 2011 | Arne Tauber, Thomas Rössler - "Enhancing Security and Privacy in Certified Mail Systems using Trust Domain Separation" - Information Security, Lecture Notes in Computer Science |  |
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| 2010 | Peter Kustor, Thomas Rössler - "Mobile qualifizierte elektronische Signatur: technisches Konzept und rechtliche Bewertung" - Globale Sicherheit und proaktiver Staat - die Rolle der Rechtsinformatik | |
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| 2010 | Arne Tauber, Thomas Rössler - "Interoperability Challenges for Pan-European Qualified Exchange of Electronic Documents" - The Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on eGovernment (ECEG 2010) | |
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| 2010 | Arne Tauber, Thomas Rössler - "A Scalable Interoperability Architecture for Certified Mail Systems" - Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC 2010) | |
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| 2010 | Thomas Rössler, Arne Tauber - "The SPOCS Interoperability Framework: Interoperability of eDocuments and eDelivery Systems taken as Example" - ISSE 2010 Securing Electronic Business Processes | |
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| 2009 | Thomas Rössler - "Electronic Voting using Identity Domain Separation and Hardware Security Modules" - Software Services for e-Business and e-Society : Proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG6.1 Conference | |
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| 2009 | Thomas Rössler - "Empowerment through Electronic Mandates – Best Practice Austria" - Software Services for e-Business and e-Society : Proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG6.1 Conference | |
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| 2009 | Thomas Rössler - "Security Requirements for Electronic Voting using the Internet" - Electronic Participation - Proceedings of Ongoing Research, General Development Issues and Projects of ePart 2009 | |
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| 2009 | Klaus Stranacher, Arne Tauber, Thomas Rössler - "Ausländische Identitäten im österreichischen E-Government" | |
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| 2009 | Arne Tauber, Thomas Rössler - "Professional Representation in Austrian EGovernment" - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference EGOV 2009 | |
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| 2009 | Thomas Rössler, Arne Tauber - "Interoperability: Coupling of e-Delivery Domains" - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Ongoing Research, General Development Issues and Projects of Electronic Government (EGOV 09) | |
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| 2009 | Herbert Leitold, Reinhard Posch, Thomas Rössler - "Media-break resistant eSignatures in eGovernment – an Austrian experience" - Emerging Challenges for Security, Privacy, and Trust - 24th IFIP SEC | |
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| 2009 | Mario Ivkovic, Herbert Leitold, Thomas Rössler - "STORK - Interoperable elektronische Identität in Europa" - 7. Information Security Konferenz | |
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| 2006 | Thomas Gert Rössler - "Proposed Framework for an Interoperable Electronic Identity Management System" - Electronic Government: 5th International Conference, Egov 2006, Krakow, Poland, September 4-8, 2006, Proceedings (Note: to appear) | |
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| 2006 | Thomas Gert Rössler - "Proposed Framework for Achieving Interoperable Services Between European Public Administrations" - Proceedings of the ARES 2006 - International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (Note: to appear) | |
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| 2005 | Thomas Gert Roessler - "Elektronische Vollmachten" - e|GOV Days 2005 | |
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| 2005 | Herbert Leitold, Reinhard Posch, Thomas Gert Roessler - "E-Voting: A Scalable Approach using XML and Hardware Security Modules" - Proceedings of eee2005 | |
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| 2005 | Herbert Leitold, Thomas Gert Roessler - "Identifikationsmodell der österreichischen Bürgerkarte" - D-A-CH | |
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| 2005 | Thomas Gert Roessler, Reinhard Posch, Amir Hayat - "Giving an Interoperable Solution for Incorporating Foreign eIDs in Austrian E-Government"," - Proceedings of IDABC-Conference 2005 | |
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| 2004 | Herbert Leitold, Reinhard Posch, Thomas Gert Roessler - "Identification in cross-border e-Government" | |
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| 2004 | Thomas Gert Roessler, Silke Palkovits - "Prozessorganisation in der öffentlichen Verwaltung - der Mehrwert aus der Prozessmodellierung" - eGov Days: State-of-the-art 2004 | |
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| 2004 | Thomas Gert Roessler, Silke Palkovits, Maria Wimmer - "Process Modelling - Burden or Relief? Living Process Modelling within a Public Organisation" - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems ICEIS 2004 - Volume 3 | |
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| 2004 | Thomas Gert Roessler, Silke Palkovits - "Elektronische Geschäftsprozesse in der öffentlichen Verwaltung" | |
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| 2004 | Kurt Dietrich, Thomas Gert Roessler - "MOSAIC - Mobile Creation of Signatures and Identification Credentials" - The First International Conference On M-Government | |
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| 2003 | Thomas Gert Roessler, Arno Hollosi - "Privacy and Trust in Distributed Networks" - Communications and Multimedia Security | |
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| 2003 | Thomas Gert Roessler, Arno Hollosi - "Enhancing Trust in Distributed Networks by Reauthentication" - Proceedings of ISSE 2003 | |
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| 2010 | Thomas Rössler - "Electronic Voting Using Identity Domain Separation and Hardware Security Modules " - International journal of e-adoption (Volume: 2 1) | |
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| 2010 | Herbert Leitold, Reinhard Posch, Thomas Rössler - "Reconstruction of electronic signatures from eDocument printouts" - Computers & security (Volume: 29) | |
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| 2009 | Arne Tauber, Thomas Rössler - "Elektronische Vollmachten im österreichischen E-Government" - eGovernment review (Volume: 4) | |
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| 2008 | Thomas Rössler - "Giving an interoperable e-ID solution: Using foreign e-IDs in Austrian e-Government" - Computer law and security report (Volume: 24) | |
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| 2007 | Thomas Gert Rössler - "Electronic Voting over the Internet - an E-Government Speciality" | |
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| 2002 | Thomas Rössler - "Identification and Authentication in Networks enabling Single Sign-On" | |
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| 2010 | Thomas Rössler, Arne Tauber - "STORK D6.4.3: eDelivery - Detailed Planning" | |
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| 2010 | Fabio Campari, Herbert Leitold, Manfred Pregartbauer, Thomas Rössler, Roberto Zuffada, Bernd Zwattendorfer - "STORK D7.10: Report on Common Specifications for eHealth LSP" | |
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| 2009 | Thomas Rössler, Arne Tauber, Alenka Zuzek, Pierre Clausse, Tarvi Martens - "STORK D6.4.2: eDelivery – Draft Planning" | |
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| 2009 | Arne Tauber, Thomas Rössler, Alenka Zuzek, Pierre Clausse, Tarvi Martens - "STORK D6.4.1: eDelivery - Functional Specification" | |
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| 2008 | Mario Ivkovic, Thomas Knall, Herbert Leitold, Reinhard Posch, Thomas Rössler, Klaus Stranacher, Thomas Zefferer, Bernd Zwattendorfer, Manuel Preliteiro, Alexandre Miranda Pinto, Ricardo Barroso, Manuel Bernardo Barbosa, Tarvi Martens - "STORK D3.2: List and assessment of priority technologies" | |
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| 2008 | Mario Ivkovic, Herbert Leitold, Reinhard Posch, Thomas Rössler, Thomas Zefferer, Bernd Zwattendorfer - "STORK D3.1: Initial List and Prioritisation of Technologies" | |
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| 2008 | Jan Eichholz, Adrian Johnston, Herbert Leitold, Marc Stern, John Heppe, Thomas Rössler - "STORK D5.1: Evaluation and assessment of existing reference models and common specs" | |
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| 2008 | Thomas Rössler - "A Roadmap towards e-Democracy" | |
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| 2006 | Herbert Leitold, Clemens Orthacker, Klaus Stranacher, Thomas Gert Roessler, Edgar Glowacki, P. Habela, T. Pieciukiewicz, K. Stencel, Kazimierz Subieta, M. Momotko, Witold Staniszkis, Jakub Strychowski, Nicolas Bourget, T. Drege - "eGov-Bus: Scenarios and requirements analysis" | |
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| 2010 | Thomas Rössler, Peter Kustor - "Mobile qualifizierte elektronische Signatur: technisches Konzept und rechtliche Bewertung " (Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion (IRIS) 2010, Salzburg, 26.02.10) | |
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| 2009 | Thomas Rössler - "Large Scale Pilot STORK: Piloting e-ID Interoperability" (Competence Center for Applied Security Technology (CAST) - Workshop Smartcard-Grossprojekte, Darmstadt, 16.07.09) | |
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| 2009 | Thomas Rössler - "E-Voting... an E-Government Speciality" (Awarding Ceremony of e|Gov Innovationspreis 2009 of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG), Linz, 31.08.09) | |
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| 2009 | Thomas Rössler - "Challenges stemming from the Service Directive - Austrian Perspective" (Services Directive: Interoperability enabling the "Single Point of Contact", Brussels, 08.10.09) | |
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| 2009 | Thomas Rössler - "STORK: Piloting e-ID Interoperability " (15th Porvoo Group meeting, Wien, 28.05.09) | |
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| 2009 | Thomas Rössler - "e-Mandates - Bilateral Empowerment through Electronic Mandates Best Practice Austria" (IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society 2009, Nancy, 24.09.09) | |
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| 2009 | Thomas Rössler - "Interoperability: coupling of e-delivery domains " (Eighth International Conference EGOV 2009, Linz, 03.09.09) | |
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| 2009 | Thomas Rössler - "Security Requirements for E-Voting using the Internet" (International Conference on eParticipation 2009, Linz, 03.09.09) | |
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| 2009 | Thomas Rössler - "Professional Representation in Austrian EGovernment" (Eighth International Conference EGOV 2009, Linz, 01.09.09) | |
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| 2009 | Thomas Rössler - "Electronic Voting using Identity Domain Separation and Hardware Security Modules" (IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society 2009, Nancy, 23.09.09) | |
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| 2008 | Thomas Rössler - "Elektronische Zustellung: organisatorisch - technisch" (Workshop E-Zustellung des Bundeskanzleramts, Wien, 04.12.08) | |
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| 2008 | Thomas Rössler - "egovlabs.gv.at - die OpenSource-Initiative der Plattform DIGITALES:ÖSTERREICH" (ADV OpenSource Symposium, Wien, 06.05.08) | |
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| 2008 | Thomas Rössler - "E-Documents - an upcoming challenge" (ViS!T 2008, Mautern, 28.05.08) | |
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| 2008 | Thomas Rössler - "The Austrian Citizen Card" (The 4th Electronic Signature Congress (JSe), Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, 29.10.08) | |
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| 2007 | Thomas Gert Rössler - "Innovation für breite Umsetzung der E-Government-Strategie" (E-Government Conference 2007, Krems, 24.05.07) | |
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| 2007 | Thomas Gert Rössler - "The Austrian Citizen Card" (4th Electronic Signature Congress (JSe), Barcelona, 29.10.07) | |
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| 2007 | Thomas Gert Rössler - "Identity Trends in e-Government: Business, Context Austria" (Liberty Alliance, E-Government Workshop, Brussel, 23.04.07) | |
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| 2007 | Thomas Gert Rössler - "Real World Case Study Presentations and Mapping to SAML/Liberty Specifications, Context Austria" (Liberty Alliance, E-Government Workshop, Brussel, 23.04.07) | |
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| 2006 | Thomas Gert Rössler - "Bürgerkarte and More" (3rd Austrian IT-Security Day (IT-Sicherheitstag), Wien, 08.11.06) | |
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| 2005 | Thomas Gert Roessler - "Das Instrument elektronische Vollmachten" (Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion (IRIS), Salzburg, 24.02.05) | |
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| 2005 | Thomas Gert Rössler - "Die österreichische Bürgerkarte" (TEC-Day 2005, Graz, 10.06.05) | |
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| 2005 | Thomas Gert Rössler - "Einsatz der Bürgerkarte in Unternehmen" (2nd Austrian IT-Security Day (IT-Sicherheitstag), Graz, 09.11.05) | |
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| 2004 | Thomas Gert Rössler - "IT-Sicherheitsmaßnahmen im Prozessmanagement" (8. Treffen der strategischen BOC Partner, Wien, 09.09.04) | |
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| 2004 | Thomas Gert Rössler - "Umfassende IT-Sicherheit - Anwendung des Österreichischen Sicherheitshandbuchs" (Sicherheitskonferenz der Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit (AGES), Wien, 07.06.04) | |
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| 2004 | Thomas Gert Rössler - "E-Government und Sicherheitsbegleitung" (5 Jahre A-SIT, Wien, 28.10.04) | |
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| 2004 | Thomas Gert Rössler - "Integrating – The E-Government Webshop" (The Austrian E-Government Experience, Wien, 29.10.04) | |
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| 2004 | Thomas Gert Rössler - "Das österreichische Sicherheitshandbuch" (1st Austrian IT-Security Day (IT-Sicherheitstag), Klagenfurt, 22.09.04) | |
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