Research

The advancing digitalization and increased performance of digital infrastructures in recent years has increasingly placed information security at the heart of all digital systems and applications in organizations. The increasingly everyday, data-driven use of digital applications in society (e.g. personal data) also requires more and more protection. In addition, artificial intelligence (AI) methods and techniques are now accessible to the general public. This enables AI to be used and applied in a variety of ways and more easily - including for the security of information technology (IT). For example, cyber attacks can be identified more quickly using AI-based systems and analyses.

This chair deals with central questions of the investigation, development and application of AI for IT security and how techniques and methods can contribute to greater transparency of AI applications. In addition, technical infrastructures that can be used to analyze and simulate cyberattacks are investigated and how future AI-based simulations can be set up efficiently. Another focus is the safety and automation of production systems and how these systems can be made more efficient, safer and smarter with AI. Important questions are how secure automation can be realized in the future with these continuously changing, new technologies.