Oct
8, 2024
Events
How can hospitals, energy and communication networks be better protected against attacks and failures? The lecture series “Sichere Kritische Infrastrukturen” at TU Darmstadt will explore this question from Wednesday, October 16. In addition to students, the public is also invited to follow the specialist lectures on screen at home or on site.
“The attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea in 2022 or the global IT outage following a faulty update this year show how vulnerable critical infrastructures can be,” explains Christian Reuter, Professor of Computer Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt, holder of the Chair of Science and Technology for Peace and Security (PEASEC) and Principal Investigator at the LOEWE center emergenCITY. “The lecture series ‘Secure Critical Infrastructures’, which has been offered at TU Darmstadt for more than ten years, highlights challenges and solutions.”
Registration is now open for students of the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Social and Historical Sciences and the International Studies/Peace and Conflict Studies program at TUCAN. Interested guests are invited to attend the lecture online or on site, participation on individual dates is free of charge.
Christian Reuter will open the lecture series on October 16 at 4:15 pm with an introduction to Secure Critical Infrastructures in the TU Darmstadt lecture hall. Subsequently, on selected Wednesday afternoons during the winter semester between 4:15 and 6 p.m., scientists from TU Darmstadt and guest speakers from science, business and administration will have their say.
Topics range from communication at the THW to the protection of maritime infrastructures
Scientist Nadja Thiessen and Professor Jens Ivo Engels from the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at TU Darmstadt will explain important basic concepts such as criticality and vulnerability on October 23. On October 30, computer science professor Matthias Hollick from the Department of Secure Mobile Networks at TU Darmstadt will talk about resilience. Karola Marky, Professor of Computer Science at Ruhr University Bochum, will focus on e-voting on November 6.
The head of the regional office of the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) in Darmstadt, Thomas König, will speak on November 27 about communication failures in the field. On January 15, 2025, Frank Sill Torres, Director of the Institute for the Protection of Maritime Infrastructures at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Bremerhaven, will talk about protecting maritime infrastructures. And on January 29, Sigurd Schuster, telecommunications expert and management consultant, will shed light on how resilient Germany’s electricity and communications networks are.
“The insights into different areas, combined with some basics on the topic, make the event particularly exciting,” says Christian Reuter.
This is why representatives from authorities, companies and universities as well as private individuals have already joined digitally in the past. Interested parties are invited to attend the lecture online or on site; participation on individual dates is free of charge. Registration is required in advance at peasec.de.
The lecture is organized by the Departments of Computer Science and Social and Historical Sciences. The event is organized by Professors Matthias Hollick (Secure Mobile Networks - SEEMOO), Jens Ivo Engels (Modern and Contemporary History) and Christian Reuter (Science and Technology for Peace and Security - PEASEC).
Partners of the event are the LOEWE center emergenCITY, the Research Training Group KRITIS of the German Research Foundation DFG and the research area Secure Urban Infrastructures (SecUrban) of the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity (ATHENE).
Lecture series “Secure Critical Infrastructures”
10 dates in the winter semester 2024/2025
Start: October 16, 2024, 4:15 p.m. to 6 p.m.
End: February 5, 2025, 4:15 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Location: Room S101/A5, Karolinenplatz 5, 64289 Darmstadt and digitally in ZOOM
Details: 2 SWS (integrated course), 3 CP, TUCAN, Moodle (materials, information)
Website and information on registration: peasec.de
