About Fraunhofer AISEC

Fraunhofer AISEC supports companies from all industries and service sectors in securing their systems, infrastructures, products and offerings. On behalf of customers, more than 150 highly skilled employees develop high-quality security technologies to increase the reliability, trustworthiness and tamper-resistance of IT-based systems and products in the area of conflict between economic requirements, user-friendliness and security requirements.

The increasing interconnection, mobilization and miniaturization of IT systems are creating new possibilities for failure and attacks that companies and public authorities cannot effectively counter with existing technologies and methods. Defense measures against cyber attacks are gaining importance worldwide to combat organized crime and cyber terrorism.

The competence field of Fraunhofer AISEC ranges from the integrated security of embedded systems and hardware components to operating systems, applications (apps) and cloud-based services to solutions for secure software and system development and the use of machine learning techniques for cyber security. In doing so, the scientists draw on comprehensive know-how across the entire spectrum of the technology stack and deal intensively with the security of industrial plants and automotive systems and the challenges of a wide range of industries such as the energy sector or the public sector.

Fraunhofer AISEC was founded in 2009 under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Claudia Eckert as a project group of Fraunhofer SIT and transferred to a research institution of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft on July 1, 2011. Since December 2013, Fraunhofer AISEC has been an independent institute of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Fraunhofer AISEC is directed by Prof. Dr. Claudia Eckert, holder of the Chair for IT Security at the School of Computation, Information and Technology of the Technical University of Munich. Her deputy is Prof. Dr. Georg Sigl, holder of the Chair for Security in Information Technology. Since 2014, the institute has also had a facility in Berlin, followed in 2017 by the second branch office in Weiden i. d. OPf.

In fall 2019, Fraunhofer AISEC moved into its new building at the Garching research campus. With state-of-the-art laboratory environments, the new AISEC cybersecurity center offers the latest technologies for security analysis and enhancing cybersecurity, as well as specially secured areas that provide an ideal infrastructure for working on security-critical projects.

Strategic partnerships with globally operating industrial companies as well as with international universities, in particular the University of Excellence TU Munich, guarantee scientific excellence of the research work as well as its market-oriented implementation.

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In Profile

 

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Scientific Excellence

 

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Quality Management

 

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Cooperation

A close cooperation with the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology of the TU Munich exists between two research groups under the chair of Prof. Eckert and Prof. Sigl respectively.

 

TU München (Technical University of Munich)

Prof. Dr. Claudia Eckert: Chair for IT Security at the Department of Computer Engineering (CE) of the School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT)

 

TU München (Technical University of Munich)

Prof. Dr. Georg Sigl: Chair for Security in Information Technology of the School of Computation, Information and Technology. 

About Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, based in Germany, is one of the world’s leading applied research organizations. It plays a crucial role in the innovation process by prioritizing research in key future technologies and transferring its research findings to industry in order to strengthen Germany as a hub of industrial activity as well as for the benefit of society.

Founded in 1949, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft currently operates 76 institutes and research units throughout Germany. Its nearly 32,000 employees, predominantly scientists and engineers, work with an annual business volume of 3.4 billion euros; 3.0 billion euros of this stems from contract research, which is divided into three funding pillars. Fraunhofer generates a share of this from industry and license-fee revenue, totaling 836 million euros. This high proportion of industrial revenue is Fraunhofer's unique selling point in the German research landscape. Another share of contract research revenue comes from publicly funded research projects. The final share is base funding supplied by the German federal and state governments and enables our institutes to develop solutions now that will become relevant to the private sector and society in a few years.

 

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Fraunhofer AISEC

Lichtenbergstraße 11

85748 Garching

Germany

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