Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Testing Software and Systems (ICTSS) for our paper on “Learning a Behavior Model of Hybrid Systems Through Combining Model-Based Testing and Machine Learning”.

Read the paper right here.

SGS and Graz University of Technology have joined forces to set up Cybersecurity Campus Graz. They address the current challenges in cybersecurity by means of working together in three areas:

1. Research on analyzing system security and on fundamental new security concepts.
2. Education for cybersecurity experts and researchers who are in such strong demand.
3. Testing and certification of product and system security.

All of these activities – from basic research and higher education programs to certification – will take place at the Cybersecurity
Campus, with a view to developing sustainable security solutions. This will give rise to a unique environment for research and the
development of industrial applications. A new joint research Center and a cybersecurity testing and certification laboratory operated
by the SGS Group will be the first facilities to be set up at Cybersecurity Campus Graz.

The Campus will also open its doors to start-ups as well as industrial and scientific partners, who will work with TU Graz and SGS to research and develop security solutions for the future. A new multifunctional building covering around 7000m2 – the heart of Cybersecurity Campus Graz – is going to be established at TU Graz’s Inffeldgasse Campus.

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Starting with October 1st, Stefan Mangard is the new head of IAIK.
He follows Reinhard Posch who has founded the institute in 1986 and is now becoming professor emeritus. Stefan Mangard is professor at IAIK
since 2013 and performing research on information security since 20 years.

With the start of winter term 2019/20, we offer several new courses to provide a thorough foundation for security in the bachelor’s degree programmes and discuss cutting-edge topics in our master’s courses.

The bachelor’s degree programmes
Computer Science (CS),
Information and Computer Engineering (ICE), and
Software Engineering and Management (SEM)
have been completely restructured and now consist of larger modules.
As part of this restructuring, we’ve developed the following new modules:

• Computer Organization and Networks (CON),
  which includes parts of previous lectures “Rechnerorganisation” and “Rechner- und Kommunikationsnetze”.
• Information Security (InfSec),
  which includes parts of previous lectures “Introduction to Information Security” and “Rechner- und Kommunikationsnetze”.

We’ve also updated our other courses to fit the new curricula. We summarized all IAIK-related changes and equivalence lists on a dedicated page. For more general information about the transition to the new curricula, check out the information by Bits.

The master’s degree programmes will be restructured significantly in winter term 2020/21, so look forward to a shiny and new Security curriculum! For now, we’re already working on new content, including

• Mathematical Background of Cryptography (AK IT Security 2, winter term),
  which takes a closer look at the mathematical concepts behind modern cryptography.

You can find a full list of our courses here (TODO: URL).

Four outstanding graduates from TU Graz received their doctorate under the auspices of the Austrian President – the highest honor in Austrian education. Among the four graduates receiving honorary rings from President Alexander Van der Bellen were two IAIK graduates.

Maria Eichlseder defended her thesis “Differential Cryptanalysis of Symmetric Primitives” in 2018 and is one of the first two women to ever receive this honor at TU Graz. Peter Pessl’s thesis on “Side-Channel Attacks on Lattice-Based Cryptography and Multi-Processor Systems” investigates new side-channel attacks on cryptographic algorithms providing security against quantum computers.

With Christoph Dobraunig and Thomas Unterluggauer, who received these honors a few months prior, a total of four IAIK members graduated sub auspiciis within a year – an unprecedented occasion!