Secure Information Systems (SEC)

The protection of know-how and resources plays an ever increasing role in our interconnected society. The University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria conducts research in the following areas: critical infrastructure, computer forensics, improvement of cryptographic methods, early recognition of malicious software and threats from the Internet as well as risk management and the establishment of a secure corporate organisation. Security questions in the Internet of Things (IoT) are being addressed at the SESAM (SEcure SmArt hoME) Laboratory. A particular focus lies on security analyses of IoT devices and the development of security concepts for the IoT. The KI-Lab uses methods from the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to solve problems with a safety and security context. The main focus is on problem areas from economy and society, such as the application of language models for intelligent risk management, but also the safety of AI technologies themselves, such as inferring training data from models. The Quantum & Post-quantum Lab focuses on studying the implications that the use of quantum computers could have on the security of cryptographic methods. To gain insightful knowledge, they employ quantum computing simulations.