CENTER FOR DIGITAL SAFETY & SECURITY
More than 200 experts at the Center for Digital Safety & Security are working on state-of-the-art information and communication technologies to build and use our systems in a highly secure and reliable manner in the context of the comprehensive digitisation and global networking of the future. Strong focus on data protection and privacy The protection of data and privacy are not only essential for a modern society, they also constitute an essential 40
core competence of the AIT research services. The Center thus contributes to creating a fundamental basis of trust for cultural, social and economic development. With its expertise in the development of methods, architectures and technologies, the Center for Digital Safety & Security makes an important contribution to the fundamental consideration and integration of the highest possible protection of data in technical solutions through privacy by design approaches.
State-of-the-art cryptographic  ethods (post quantum encryption) m Over the past decade, AIT has acquired an excellent international reputation as a specialist in quantum technologies and as a coordinator of major European projects. A case in point: in the spring of 2020, Magnus Brunner, State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK) signed the "European Quantum Communication Infrastructure Initiative" ("EuroQCI Declaration") in Brussels. In this initiative, 24 EU member states affirm their intention to establish a European cyber-protection shield based on a quantum communication infrastructure within the next 10 years. Under the title "Open European Quantum Key Distribution Testbed" (OPENQKD), AIT has been leading the first European pilot project within the EuroQCI initiative already since September 2019, which deals with realising a secure and interconnected Europe by means of quantum encryption. At the same time, AIT is an international leader in the development of "Quantum Computer Safe" technologies – i.e. encryption methods that cannot be decrypted even after quantum computers are available. This competence comes into play in the "Quantum Flagship", for example: This programme is one of the EU initiatives, was launched in 2018 with a timefraAIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
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The security technologies of the future are developed at the Center for Digital Safety & Security: In addition to innovative encryption methods, blockchain procedures and tools for disaster control, market-ready quantum technologies are also being worked on.