Cybersecurity Day 2025

Garching bei München / October 23, 2025, 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Where Research Meets Industry – Fraunhofer AISEC’s 3rd Cybersecurity Day on 23 October 2025 in Garching near Munich

Cyberattacks pose an ever-growing threat to businesses. According to a 2024 Bitkom study (in German), 80% of companies report a surge in digital attacks — and the trend keeps climbing. Today, two-thirds (65%) of businesses see their very existence at risk from cyberattacks — up from 52% last year and just 9% in 2021. This highlights once again that cybersecurity has become a decisive success factor for companies of all sizes and sectors.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC) develops cutting-edge methods, tools, and solutions to counter these threats and strengthen resilience against future risks. Our research is closely aligned with the practical needs of industry, business, and public institutions.

Join us for our third Cybersecurity Day to stay ahead with state-of-the-art technology.

Explore the latest cybersecurity research, experience our high-security labs first hand, and discover the essential cybersecurity solutions your organisation needs to thrive in the digital age.

This year's focus: Security and Vulnerability Analysis, Industrial Security, Security Compliance, Trustworthy Hardware, Post-Quantum Cryptography, Trustworthy AI, and Digital Identities.

Demonstrator Exhibition

Experience innovative IT security solutions »made by Fraunhofer AISEC« for research and industry:

Protective Film and Discrete Measurement Electronics for a Secure Area | Trustworthy Hardware
Open-Source Secure Element: Extending OpenTitan with Post-Quantum Cryptography | Trustworthy Hardware
»ANONY-MED«: Anonymised Data for the Digital Future of Medicine | Trustworthy AI
Practical Applications of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (PI-RADS and Quest) | (Post-Quantum) Cryptography
Automated Compliance Assessment with »Codyze« | Security Compliance
Confidential Computing for Edge-Cloud Applications | Industrial Security / Trustworthy Hardware
Evaluation Platform for In-Vehicle Network Architectures | Security and Vulnerability Analysis
»MINERVA«: Secure Machine Data Collaboration | Industrial Security
»SHIQ«: Secure IoT Systems in Properties and Residential Areas | Security and Vulnerability Analysis
Cybersecurity for the German EUDI Wallet | Digital Identities

Cybersecurity Labs

Learn how to use our advanced laboratory equipment:

AUTOMOTIVE SECURITY LAB: Vehicle security analyses in a TISAX Assessment Level 3-certified environment

INDUSTRIAL SECURITY LAB: Analyses and testing for Industry 4.0, IoT, networked production, and building automation

HARDWARE SECURITY LAB: Advanced measurement tools, side-channel analyses, fault injections, and custom software development

Event details

Program

16:00–16:30 Registration & Pre-Networking
16:30–17:30 AISEC Lab Tour I
17:30–17:45 Keynote (Georg Sigl): »Current Challenges in Cybersecurity and How Applied Research Can Help Address Them«
17:45–18:00 Elevator Pitches – Brief Introductions to our Demonstrators
18:00–20:00 Parallel Program
- 18:00–19:00 AISEC Lab Tour II
- 18:00–20:00 Demonstrator Exhibition »AISEC Tools & Expertise«
20:00 Informal Networking with Finger Food and Drinks

Registration

Registration closed.

Location

Fraunhofer AISEC
Lichtenbergstr. 11
85748 Garching b. München

Date

October 23, 2025, 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Organization

Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security AISEC

Language

German

Protective Film and Discrete Measurement Electronics for a Secure Area

Trustworthy Hardware

1. EXHIBIT

Highly secure systems in unprotected environments must maintain integrity throughout their lifecycle. This demonstrator features protective film and discrete measurement electronics designed to resist physical tampering and safeguard sensitive data and communications.

Contact persons:
Vatentin Huber, valentin.huber@aisec.fraunhofer.de
Robert Hesselbarth, robert.hesselbarth@aisec.fraunhofer.de

Open-Source Secure Element: Extending OpenTitan with Post-Quantum Cryptography

Trustworthy Hardware

2. EXHIBIT

Open-source hardware promotes innovation, high quality, transparency, and rapid development. This demonstrator shows how post-quantum cryptography algorithms can be integrated into the OpenTitan open-source secure element platform to prepare hardware for the post-quantum era.

Contact person:
Andreas Seelos-Zankl, andreas.zankl@aisec.fraunhofer.de

»ANONY-MED«: Anonymised Data for the Digital Future of Medicine

Trustworthy AI

3. EXHIBIT

Fraunhofer AISEC leads the »ANONY-MED: Anonymised Data for the Digital Future of Medicine« project, exploring innovative anonymisation techniques for the privacy-compliant exchange of medical data. This demo presents novel privacy and utility metrics for assessing AI-generated synthetic brain MRI data, advancing secure data use in healthcare.

Contact persons:
Arthur Ribeiro De Menezes, arthur.menezes@aisec.fraunhofer.de
Jannis Ihrig, jannis.ihrig@aisec.fraunhofer.de

Practical Applications of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (PI-RADS and Quest)

(Post-Quantum) Cryptography

4. EXHIBIT

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables privacy-preserving computation in sectors such as healthcare and data analytics. The PI-RADS demo shows how FHE supports clinical decision-making while safeguarding patient privacy. The Quest demo illustrates how encrypted data can be analysed securely — for instance, to calculate the fastest route on encrypted graphs.

Contact person:
Mark Gall, mark.gall@aisec.fraunhofer.de

Automated Compliance Assessment with »Codyze«

Security Compliance

5. EXHIBIT

Modern software systems are complex, consisting of countless components with growing security requirements. Codyze by Fraunhofer AISEC is a static analysis tool that semi-automatically verifies compliance with security standards. Each step can be manually reviewed or adjusted, ensuring full transparency and trust throughout the process.

Contact person:
Alexander Küchler, alexander.kuechler@aisec.fraunhofer.de

Confidential Computing for Edge-Cloud Applications

Industrial Security / Trustworthy Hardware

6. EXHIBIT

As distributed software workloads expand, platform security for computing nodes is crucial. This demonstrator showcases secure, mobile ad-hoc networks that remain operational even in disaster scenarios. These flexible technologies adapt to diverse computing environments, with OS-level virtualisation ensuring high security even on resource-limited devices. Confidential Computing enables secure processing of sensitive data in edge-cloud systems — protecting your operations.

Ansprechpartner:
Felix Wruck, felix.wruck@aisec.fraunhofer.de
Alexander Weidinger, alexander.weidinger@aisec.fraunhofer.de

Evaluation Platform for In-Vehicle Network Architectures

Security and Vulnerability Analysis

7. EXHIBIT

Security measures must balance performance requirements such as execution speed and memory usage. Theoretical assessments on the impact of these non-functional applications often fall short in practice. Our demonstrator presents a testbed for future automotive networks, allowing security aspects like network segmentation to be evaluated experimentally. This enables data-driven decisions on optimal security configurations.

Contact person:
Katharina Bogad, katharina.bogad@aisec.fraunhofer.de

»MINERVA«: Secure Machine Data Collaboration

Industrial Security

8. EXHIBIT

Fraunhofer AISEC spearheads the project »Secure Collaborative Use of Machine Data Using Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (MINERVA)«, enabling secure data sharing while preserving data sovereignty. Machine data is anonymised before analysis, and machine-learning models are trained in the cloud using anonymised data. These models are then seamlessly integrated into production environments.

Contact person:
Alexander Giehl, alexander.giehl@aisec.fraunhofer.de

»SHIQ«: Secure IoT Systems in Properties and Residential Areas

Security and Vulnerability Analysis

9. EXHIBIT

Fraunhofer AISEC coordinates the »Secure Heterogeneous IoT Systems in Properties and Residential Areas (SHIQ)« project, offering a toolkit for partially automated security testing of IoT systems. It supports code analysis during the implementation or early testing phases to identify and eliminate vulnerabilities at an early stage.

Contact person:
Tobias Specht, tobias.specht@aisec.fraunhofer.de

Cybersecurity for the German EUDI Wallet

Digital Identities

10. EXHIBIT

Secure, user-friendly electronic identities (eID) and credentials are essential for accessing digital services in mobility, finance, healthcare, public administration, and education. EUDI Wallets create a trusted, Europe-wide interoperable ecosystem for digital identities and credentials, seamlessly integrated into your smartphone. SPRIND — Germany’s Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation — oversees the implementation on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs and State Modernisation (BMDS). Fraunhofer AISEC serves as the cybersecurity partner.

Contact persons:
Martin Seiffert, martin.seiffert@aisec.fraunhofer.de
Wolfgang Studier, wolfgang.studier@aisec.fraunhofer.de