Cybersecurity

The overall objective of the cybersecurity cluster is to contribute to the societal resilience sustainability through broad engagement with public and private organizations as well as citizens by conducting high-quality multi-disciplinary research on the social and technological aspects of cybersecurity, and by actively partaking in societal discussions.

The research cluster addresses the following topics:

Design and development of sociotechnical systems for secure sustainable digital future and understanding the implications of systems in use at the individual, organizational, and societal level
Investigation of new methods and processes following socio-technical and human centric approaches to address challenges related to cybersecurity (emerging threats and vulnerabilities) arising from the digitalization in business, industries, and critical services sectors.
Study the factors behind strengthening organizational capabilities within the different phases of cybersecurity incident management, leading to efficient management of cyber incidents, stronger defenses against cyberattacks and guaranteed business continuity.
Integration of innovation concepts to develop new methods for enhancing cyber situational awareness, SoC operations and cyber preparedness based on advanced training, capacity-building and development of tools for operational, tactical and strategic decision-making towards resilient organizations and societies.

To address these questions, we aim at multidisciplinary approaches and to utilize broadly scientific methods from both engineering and the social sciences.

Research Keywords

cyber crime
cyber crisis management
cyber deception (e.g., infodemic/disinformation/misinformation/cyber fraud/social engineering)
cyber resilience
cybersecurity in high reliability organizations (e.g., HRO, critical infrastructure)
cyber physical systems
economics of cybersecurity
GRC (governance, risk, compliance)
human-centered cybersecurity
security and privacy of human-robot teaming
privacy
security of digital supply chain
security-by-design
strategic cybersecurity
teaching-based research/education
trust to digital identity