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Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale Adversaries

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Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale Adversaries

CASA in a nutshell

Welcome to CASA – your home for cutting-edge IT security research in Germany and beyond. Innovative and Holistic: We aim to develop strong countermeasures against powerful cyber attackers.

Ghassan Karame Researches for More Security and Data Privacy

The researcher is an expert in blockchain security, especially for Bitcoins. He came across this focus rather by chance through a newspaper article.

Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale Adversaries

Research

CASA’s holistic approach is internationally unique and holds the potential for groundbreaking results. The cluster will serve as a blueprint for security research, combining top-level science, interdisciplinarity and practice.

Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale Adversaries

Team

Our outstanding PI team covers the full range needed for tackling the challenging research problems in modern cyber security.

Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale Adversaries

Research Hub A:
Future Cryptography

Our goal is to develop cryptographic solutions against large-scale adversaries.

Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale Adversaries

Research Hub B:
Embedded Security

We will investigate the interaction of security systems with their physical environment.

Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale Adversaries

Research Hub C:
Secure Systems

We will build secure systems, design mitigation chains and utilize machine learning techniques to detect unknown attacks.

Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale Adversaries

Research Hub D:
Usability

We will focus on end-user behavior and the systems engineering process to integrate human behavior and technical security research.

"CASA - Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale Adversaries"

"CASA - Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale Adversaries" pursues the goal of enabling sustainable security against large-scale adversaries, in particular nation-state attackers.

The research is characterized by a strongly interdisciplinary approach which, in addition to technical questions, also investigates the interaction of human behavior and IT security.

The scientific core of CASA is formed by four Research Hubs. The Future Cryptography Hub investigates crucial foundational problems and the Embedded Security Hub addresses platform security challenges in the context of powerful attackers. The Secure Systems Hub will provide solutions for building complex systems in a secure fashion. Finally, the research in the Usability Hub will address the challenge of making the research in the three technical hubs usable for humans.

The Transfer Lab will investigate the integration of the security solutions from the Research Hubs into real-world applications in a truly meaningful manner.

DFG publishes call for proposals for Clusters of Excellence within the Excellence Strategy

Draft proposal for "CASA" submitted

Full proposal CASA is submitted 

Start of the Cluster of Excellence

Start of 6 CASA Fundamental Research Projects 

Grand opening of the Cluster of Excellence 

Best Paper Award for Amir Moradi at CHES

First place in CSAW competition for Jörg Schwenk

Numerous CASA members in the final of the NIST standardization process for post-quantum cryptography

First Mid-Term Reviews of CASA Research Projects

CASA Online-Retreat for PhDs and Postdocs

CASA Early Career Researchers at Full Strength: Target of 40 Phds and Postdocs Reached

Amir Moradi set a record in the history of the CHES conference - co-authoring of 10 accepted papers

Early 2016
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April 2017
September 2017
February 2018
September 2018
January 2019
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End of March 2019
May 2020
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November 2019
January 2020
July 2020
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November 2020
March 2021
June 2021
August 2021
September 2021

First idea for an EXC application by the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security

First planning meeting with RUB 

CASA is invited to submit full proposal 

Funding decision: CASA becomes Cluster of Excellence

CASA Initial Research Projects begin

CASA consortium agreement adopted

Start of the regularly held CASA Distinguished Lectures

First 3-day CASA Retreat

Intel's "Outstanding Researcher Award" for Thorsten Holz

Best Paper Award for Gregor Leander at the CRYPTO

First Strategy Meeting With the CASA Advisory Board

Admission of Angela Sasse to the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts

Organization of the first international "Women in Security and Cryptography" Workshop

CASA Retreat 2021