Key topics

Focus areas of research and innovation

Key Topics

  • Research on „security“-relevant soft- and hardware
  • Protection of IoT-appliances systems and networks
  • Cyber crime and digital forensics
  • Secure E-Government (incl. maintenance of trust in the system by citizens)
  • Steganography and digital data analysis (post-quantum encryption)
  • The user as part of the digital dimension (data security, cyber-stalking, cyber-mobbing)
  • Security & Artificial Intelligence
  • Hybrid threats (incl. deep fake detection)
  • Protection of ICT systems as „smart“ critical infrastructures (eg. autonomous mobility, smart energy and other supply networks) incl. resilience, security of supply and trustworthiness (esp. for broadband roll-out and 5G-networks)
Federal Ministry of Finance
Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)