Category: Research
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Preventing cyber incidents in organizations: What can we learn from 100 years of safety research?
If a cyber incident is successful in an organization, an external attacker is often involved. However, many causes lie within the organization, e.g. insufficiently secure processes, systems or insecure behaviour. There are direct parallels here between cybersecurity and the area of safety. The difference, however, is that the field of safety and safety research is over a…
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Cryptography in the Wild
Cryptography in the Wild As part of the CYRENZH and DSI Cybersecurity Community event series, we had the pleasure to learn from Prof. Kenny Paterson (ETH Zurich, D-INFK) about “Cryptography in the Wild”. In an engaging presentation, Prof. Paterson explained the two goals of this line of research: namely to either try to find vulnerabilities in the system…
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Leveraging Games for Education – Perspectives from Cybersecurity and Sustainability
Last week, I had the privilege to speak at the #SecurityAwarenessDay, where I had the opportunity to learn from outstanding speakers and interact with enthusiastic attendees. One key insight that emerged was the challenge of actively involving people in learning about cybersecurity, which requires “capturing their attention”. A new approach to learning – the use of games – was addressed…
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Towards Cyber-Resilient Critical Infrastructures and Societies
Towards cyber-resilient critical infrastructures and societies: The cases of the european union, norway and Switzerland As part of the CYRENZH and DSI Cybersecurity Community event series, we had the pleasure to welcome Prof. Sokratis Katsikas. Sokratis is Director of the Norwegian Center for Cybersecurity in Critical Sectors (NORCICS) and Professor with the Dept. of Information Security and Communication…
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DSI Insights: A “cyber militia” for the canton of Zurich
“Every day we receive countless emails, most of which are fortunately unsuccessful, in which criminals try to get our passwords, credit card details or other sensitive data, or to blackmail us. Even organisations are not immune to cyber attacks. Almost every day we read about successful cyber-attacks on companies and government agencies. But how can…
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Mosaic “Digitalisation” – Digital Society Initiative and CYREN
Melanie Knieps, Principal Investigator at CYRENZH, explains in a Security Awareness Insider podcast what the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) and the Digitalisation Initiative of the Universities of Zurich (DIZH) are – and what CYRENZH has to do with them.Thanks to Katja Dörlemann and Marcus B. for the wonderful conversation and the fascinating questions. We can…
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Cyber-Defence Campus: Working Together To Strengthen Switzerland’s Cybersecurity
As part of the CYRENZH and DSI Cybersecurity Community event series, we had the pleasure to welcome Bernhard Tellenbach. Bernhard is the head of the cyber security team of armasuisse Science and Technology’s Cyber-Defence Campus. In his presentation, Bernhard first provided a general introduction into the mission of the Cyber-Defence Campus, which includes early identification of trends in…
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PhD Network’s First Meeting
The CYRENZH Ph.D. Network in Cybersecurity aims to connect excellent students with a master’s degree, supervisors, and funding opportunities and to facilitate interdisciplinary research. The launch meeting of the network was a great success. Novice and senior researchers from the domains of mathematics, engineering, computer science, and psychology took this opportunity to exchange ideas on…
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Introducing our P.h.D. Network
We are happy to announce the CYRENZH Ph.D. Network in Cybersecurity. Our goal to connect excellent students with a master’s degree, supervisors, and funding opportunities and facilitate interdisciplinary research. The network is a “proof of principle” and a precursor to a potential “Cybersecurity Ph.D. Program”. Therefore, the network currently relies on bringing together interested students…
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Thierry Schaltegger on “the human factor”
Our PhD student Thierry Schaltegger talked about “the human factor” on podcast #25 of the think tank Unchain Your Mind: Human factor: How do we deal with cyber risks? Thierry Schaltegger discusses these and other exciting questions in the new podcast with Unchain Your Mind. Listen now on:SoundcloudSpotify Source