Entries by Martina Wetzl-Piewald

Daniel Gruß promoted to Associate Professor

We are delighted to announce that Daniel Gruß has successfully completed his tenure track and has now been promoted to be an associate professor as of 1st of June 2022. Daniel has been part of our institute since 2010 and become a popular lecturer and also a reknown researcher within his field. Along with his […]

Whom to trust? Stefan Mangard on Cybersecurity

“Cybersecurity is the basic prerequisite for the for the functioning of a networked society. The basis of cybersecurity is  confidentiality, availability, and integrity. How can I be sure that the data I get displayed is really trustworthy?” Read the whole interview of The Red Bulletin Innovator Steiermark with Stefan Mangard by clicking on the link […]

How to prove digital security

By now, we entrust almost our entire lives to the digital world. Be it on the mobile phone, on the computer, on the net. No wonder that security is playing an increasingly important role. IAIK has always been concerned with these issues. Stefan Mangard and Roderick Bloem spoke about provable security with Kleine Zeitung – […]

Russia’s access to international online networks on hold

Within days, the largest social networks in Russia lost their raison d’être, and the digital regulars’ tables emptied out. On the one hand, at the behest of the tech companies themselves, on the other, Russian authorities are visibly tightening digital censorship in the country. Russia is not only targeting popular services and digital news sites, […]

“Whoever says digital must also say security” – Interview with Stefan Mangard

“Even if cyber attacks are on the rise: Things are not as bad as some think. The world is still under the control of the good guys,” says Stefan Mangard, whose Institute for Applied Information Processing and Comunications is partly responsible for Graz’s excellent reputation as an international cybersecurity stronghold. The successes in uncovering hardware […]

“SPyCoDE” – Realising the principle of “Security and Privacy by Design”

The Austrian Science Fund FWF approved another Special Research Programme (SFB) with TU Graz participation. Under the leadership of Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), researchers from Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), the Universities of Vienna and Klagenfurt as well as IST Austria are working together in the special research programme “SPyCoDE” on technological […]

Information Security Scholarship awarded

Congratulations to Verena Schröppel, who received the Information Security Scholarship on 17th November 2021! The Cybersecurity Campus Graz is awarding these scholarships for talented and motivated international students starting their studies at TU Graz. Students qualify if they have a major in information security within the english-language master’s programmes of Computer Science, Information and Computer […]

A long way to go for computer science education in schools

Roderick Bloem, professor at IAIK and dean of our faculty, would like Europe to be the leader in computer science education and thinks critical about the domestic education policy where, unlike other countries, it has not been possible to create an increased interest in computer science. Read the whole article published in c’t magazine (in […]