CISPA Center for IT Security, Privacy and Accountability

From a National Competence Center to a

12. June 2017 World-Renowned Research Center Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Gerling

Starting point: a regional competence center

. Initiative by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research to establish national competence centers for IT‐Security

. Three locations chosen: - Darmstadt: EC‐SPRIDE/Cased (today: CRISP) - Karlsruhe: Kastel - Saarbrücken: CISPA

. CISPA was founded on Oct 1st, 2011. . Team was about 10‐15 researchers. . Founder: Prof. Michael Backes

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CISPA, Saarbrücken

Inspiring Environment as Catalyst

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1st phase BMBF funding ERC Synergy Grant

Synergy Grant imPACT

Foundation of the center EIT ICT Master Security and Privacy

Synergy Grant • Most prestigious research price of the European Commission “to promote substantial advances in the frontier of knowledge and to achieve scientific breakthroughs”. • 2014 for the first time in • Funding volume: 10 Million euros • The solution for the problems of tomorrow‘s internet:

• Protection of privacy, e.g., in social networks Michael Backes • Accountability of users and providers Direktor des CISPA Peter Druschel • Compliance of software and services with user expectations, Stellvertretender Direktor des CISPA Rupak Majumdar applicable laws and provider policies CISPA‐Associate Researcher

Gerhard Weikum • Trustworthiness of information Principal Investigator des CISPA

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1st phase BMBF funding ERC Synergy Grant 2nd phase BMBF funding DFG CRC 1223

CISPA building

Synergy Grant imPACT Collaborative Research Center 1223 Cybersecurity Methods and Tools for Understanding Bachelor and Controlling Privacy

Foundation of the center EIT ICT Master Security and Privacy

• Long‐term undertaking to solve multidisciplinary research problems • Biggest program of the DFG • Funding: 10 Million euros in the first phase (2016‐2019)

• Methods and Tools for Understanding and Controlling Privacy • Privacy in an open Internet • Privacy for mobile devices • Anonymity in online interactions

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1st phase BMBF funding ERC Synergy Grant 2nd phase BMBF funding DFG CRC 1223 CISPA‐Stanford Center

CISPA‐Stanford CISPA building Center for Cybersecurity

Synergy Grant imPACT Collaborative Research Center 1223 Cybersecurity Methods and Tools for Understanding Bachelor and Controlling Privacy

Foundation of the center EIT ICT Master Security and Privacy

• Institutional collaboration of two world‐renowned research institutions • Elite training ground for excellent young executives for research, education and economy • Unique in the area of IT security throughout Europe • 50 researcher positions in steady state

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Founded in 2011 > €75 M > 615 Papers 5 Spin‐Offs 140 core CISPA‐funded researchers Third‐party funding since 2011 Conferences and Journals In the first 5 years more than 150 associated on‐site €7 M p.a. by BMBF > 50% top‐tier

Cybersecurity Bachelor DFG CRC 1223 7 ERC Grants CISPA‐Stanford Center Start in 2014/2015, first in Germany Started in 2016 1 Synergy (unique in CS) Elite training ground for excellent researchers Currently a total of 230 students 19 PIs, 27 PhD students 1 Advanced, 2 Consolidator, Unique for IT security throughout Europe 142 new registrations in winter term 2016 Coordinated at CISPA 2 Starting, 1 PoC Grants 50 researcher positions in steady state

Cryptography

Trustworthy Platforms and Devices

Software Security

Trustworthy Information Processing

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Within five Years to a world‐renowned Research Center

Rank Name Coverage Country 1 Carnegie Mellon University (info) 82.6% USA 2 University of California, Berkeley (info) 91.3% USA 3 Microsoft Research, US (info) 68.1% USA 4 Georgia Institute of Technology (info) 63.8% USA 5 Stanford University (info) 76.8% USA 6 University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (info) 62.3% USA 7 University of California, Santa Barbara (info) 65.2% USA 8 University of Maryland, College Park (info) 50.7% USA 9 University of California, San Diego (info) 62.3% USA 9 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (info) 58.0% USA 11 IBM Research, US (info) 65.2% USA 12 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (info) 58.0% USA 13 Columbia University (info) 50.7% USA 14 Purdue University (info) 50.7% USA 15 Google (info) 47.8% USA 16 Indiana University, Bloomington (info) 43.5% USA 17 Johns Hopkins University (info) 52.2% USA 18 ETH Zurich (info) 40.6% SWITZERLAND 18 University of Wisconsin (info) 44.9% USA 20 (info) 46.4% GERMANY

CISPA is already #2 in Europe after ETH Zurich

Ranking based on papers at top-4 conferences in IT-Security: IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, USENIX Security, NDSS

Growing further as a world‐renowned Research Center

CISPA Research Center for Cybersecurity

< 03/2017 04/2017 > Researcher 140 600-700+ Budget (EUR) 7 Mio. 50+ Mio. (mid-term)

Our Goal: becoming the largest publicly funded research center for cyber security in the world

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Press release: https://www.saarland.de/dokumente/thema_innovation/2017-03-14_41_Forschungszentrum_fuer_IT-Sicherheit_EN.pdf

Further German Strategic Investments in IT‐Security

. German Federal Office for - 115 – 216,5 new positions (according to cabinet decision for IT‐security law) . Central Unit for Information Technology in the area of Security (ZITiS) - 400 positions to be filled until 2022, location is Munich - Research, development and technical expertise for agencies . Bavarian reginal authority for Security in information technologies (LSI) - 200 positions to be filled until 2025 in Nurnberg - Cyber defense for Bavaria, consulting for citizens . German Federal Intelligence Service - 400 positions new positions starting from 2017 - Application via forensic challenge . The Universität der Bundeswehr München - 11 new Professors, 67 new research positions - https://heise.de/‐3287684

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