Gravitation grant of 21.5 million for consortium Challenges in Cyber Security.
Christian Schaffner participates in a consortium that has received a Gravity Grant from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. It is the research project 'Challenges in Cyber Security', which is led by Tanja Lange of Eindhoven University of Technology and has been rewarded 21.5 million for a 10-year program. TU/e, VU, RU and CWI are the other consortium partners.
21.5 million for ‘Challenges in Cyber Security’
Cyber security is often portrayed as an educational problem or a resource problem, shifting blame on users, system administrators, or the budget holders limiting the system administrators’ abilities. However, there are many hard problems that remain unsolved and that require a coordinated scientific investigation. The “Challenges in Cyber Security” project brings together top researchers from the hard sciences areas of cyber security to tackle these hard open problems. It is led by Eindhoven University of Technology and has been rewarded 21.5 million for a 10-year program.
Schaffner: ‘I’m really excited to get started with this big cybersecurity project. Together with the other consortium partners from TU/e, VU, RU and CWI, we are taking a systematic approach to make sure our cyber systems are secure. For example, we address long-term security by looking ahead to the time when quantum computers could break the encryption that keeps our online data safe right now. Even though that might be years away, bad actors could collect encrypted information today and crack it open later when they have the right tools. So we’re getting ahead of the game to protect our data for the future.’
