Fraunhofer ICT Group
Fraunhofer ICT Group

IT and Cyber Security

IT and Cyber Security

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Cyber security and cyber resilience are cross-cutting issues that have become relevant to companies and society across industries and technologies. The average annual growth rate in Germany for the years 2023 to 2028 is around 9 percent (Statista).

Growth areas

  • Cloud computing
  • AI and security
  • IAM/SSI
  • Software security
  • Infrastructure protection

Most important sectors

  • Automotive
  • public administration
  • Healthcare
  • Production
  • Energy
  • critical infrastructures

Priorities

  • Sector-specific applications for industry, critical infrastructures and public administration
  • Applied encryption
  • Hardware and software security, testing, software certification
  • Infrastructure security and networks
  • Data protection and privacy, AI and security, multimedia security, digital identities
  • Trusted hardware and AI
  • Sovereign trusted data spaces
  • Cyber-resilient architectures
  • Access control (biometrics), incident analysis and forensics

Supervisors

Prof. Claudia Eckert

Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security AISEC

Prof. Michael Waidner

Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT

Additional Supervisors

  • Prof. Peter Martini (Fraunhofer FKIE)
  • Prof. Eric Bodden (Fraunhofer IEM)
  • Prof. Jürgen Beyerer (Fraunhofer IOSB)

Core Contributors

Fraunhofer ICT Group

  • Fraunhofer Institutes with a full operational focus on IT and cyber security: Fraunhofer Institutes AISEC and SIT
  • Institutes with a partial focus on IT and cyber security:
    Fraunhofer Institutes FKIE, FOKUS, IDMT,  IEM, IGD, IIS, IOSB, ISST

Other Fraunhofer contributors

  • Fraunhofer Cybersecurity Training Lab LLCS
  • National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE