Cyber Security & IT Security

The protection of IT infrastructures and sensitive data presents companies with new technical and organizational challenges every day. As part of the research focus "Cyber Security", researchers at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences are working on the development of new methods for detecting, interpreting and defending against attacks. In particular, we consider the areas of system security and (mal)software, data science, as well as security management and privacy.

On the one hand, it is essential for us to consider new theoretical approaches as far as possible, but also the intensive cooperation with partners from industry as well as research partners from other areas such as medical research or bioinformatics, in order to achieve research results that are as realistic and relevant for practical application as possible.

Essential topics therefore also include the area of digital forensics, which is particularly relevant for public authorities, but also the topic of industrial security, since this practical area of application has particularly interesting conditions (long running time of the components, low possibilities of alterations in the system, 24/7 operation) and at the same time has an extremely high criticality.

Students of the study course IT Security and Information Security have the opportunity to deepen their practical knowledge by participating in research projects and thus gain practical experience in the field of (cooperative) research.

Institutes & Research Groups

Institute of
Creative\Media/Technologies

Digital Technologies, Media Computing, Media Creation, Media Business

Institute of
IT Security Research

Security Management & Privacy, System & Application Security, Applied Security & Data Science

Projekte

Josef Ressel Center for Blockchain-Technologies & Security management

The Josef Ressel Center for Blockchain-Technologies & Security management is a research institution operated by the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences. The research objective is making secur...

Josef Ressel Center for Unified Threat Intelligence on Targeted Attacks (TARGET)

The Josef Ressel Center for Unified Threat Intelligence on Targeted Attacks (TARGET) is a research institution operated by the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences. Its mission is to explore nov...

upribox - Usable Privacy Box

The project "usable privacy box" (upribox) developes a software and creates a device that protects internet privacy and ensures data security.

LIVEFOR

The project LIVEFOR aims at enabling corporations their own research activities in the field of live-forensic and analysis of volatile data of a running computer system.

PriSAd - Privacy and Security in Online Advertisement

Integral analysis of privacy and security of online advertising networks

upribox 2 - Usable Privacy Box 2

The usable privacy box (upribox) is a network tool that filters ads on all connected devices such as smartphones or laptops and ultimately protects the user’s privacy. The upribox 2.0 is even easier...

Big-Data Analytics

Developing methods for the analysis of large amounts of data without compromising data protection.

CPS-Security

Investigating threats to cyber-physical systems (CPS) and developing countermeasures

KIF – Cryptography for Wireless Communication

A highly secure and durable cryptography for wireless communication integrating radio data. – High frequency data transmission may allow for the traffic of the future.

ITsec.at

Project ITsec.at aims at identifying and counteracting cyber-attacks. Strategies, security tests and a comprehensive decision support system are developped.

SmartMeterIDS

This project aims at improving the operational security of advanced metering infrastructures by the development of an innovative intrusion detection system tailored to the specific characteristics.

Institute of IT Security Research

Smartphone Security

This research project focuses on more or less neglected topics of cyber security (IT security) concerning smartphones, tablet-PCs and BYOD (bring your own device).

LoRaKey

Secret Key Generation for Long Range Communication Networks - LoRaKey aims at energy efficient secret key generation for lightweight LPWAN applications.

Data Science

Substation Security

The project aims at improving security within the automation network of power distribution systems by developing anomaly detection algorithms for the communication networks of substations.

MalwareDef– Recognition through description

Defining formal descriptions of potentially malicious actions to allow developing proactive defensive measures

Malware Analysis

Model Based System Integration of CPS

Developing prototypes for an automated control programme in PLCopen from state machines and a learning-capable Part Average Analysis for a real production environment.