Our Mission

Datenschutz, der Schutz des Individuums vor übermäßiger Verarbeitung seiner Daten, und Datensicherheit, der Schutz der Daten bei deren Verarbeitung, Übermittlung und Speicherung, sind die der Professur namensgebenden Bereiche der Informatik. Auch beschäftigen wir uns mit den damit einhergehenden Bereichen Informations- und Kodierungstheorie, Anonymitätstechniken, Steganographie und Biometrie sowohl in Forschung als auch Lehre. read more ...

Gordon Prize in Managing Cybersecurity Resources Awarded

Rainer Böhme, of the Institute of Systems Architecture at Technische Universität Dresden in Germany, and Tyler Moore, of the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard University, won for their essay titled “The Iterated Weakest Link.” the first Gordon Prize in Managing Cybersecurity Resources. read more ...
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The Chair

Prof. Dr. Andreas Pfitzmann is head of the privacy and security group at Dresden University of Technology. For more than 25 years, his research interests include privacy and multilateral security, mainly in communication networks, mobile computing, and distributed applications. read more ...

Workshop Digital Multimedia Forensics: Methods and Applications

The Privacy and Data Security Research Group organises the workshop "Digitale Multimedia-Forensik: Techniken und Anwendungsgebiete" [Digital multimedia forensics: Methods and applications]. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the "Informatik 2009" conference in Lübeck, Germany, on September 28, 2009. It will bring together both interested researchers and potential users and provides a forum for stimulating discussion. The registration is now open. read more ...

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