Cybersecurity
Research center for applied cyber security
The Darmstadt Center for Research in Security and Privacy (CRISP) is to become a permanent national research center for applied cyber security. This was agreed by the organizations involved in CRISP: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Technische Universität Darmstadt and Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Hessian Ministry of Science and the Arts (HMWK) have pledged their support and funding for the new center.
With increasing digitalization, cyber security is one of the most important challenges of our time. It is a national task and a key issue for the German economy. The new center will tackle the major challenges of cybersecurity research in long-term, application-oriented missions. For example, CRISP will research how to reliably protect Germany's critical infrastructures (electricity, transportation, etc.) and how to secure IT systems in the long term, even in the face of new technologies such as quantum computers. CRISP will continuously, comprehensively and proactively identify the important, application-oriented issues of cyber security and privacy and tackle them in a unique, innovative cooperation model between university and non-university research. This cooperation enables consistency from the basics to technology transfer, including company start-ups and interdisciplinarity, which includes, for example, computer science, technology, law and economics, psychology and ethics. sw
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