The postgraduate research training group NERD (North Rhine-Westphalian Experts on Research in Digitalization) is funding your researchers in IT-security at universities and universities of applied sciences in North Rhine-Westphalia to promote research in the area of Human Centered Systems Security. Young researchers from different locations and principle investigators are (often for the first time) cooperating on shared projects. The core of the college is the cross-location doctorate in research tandems.

  • Critical Vulnerabilities Discovered in Brokered Single Sign-On

    An international research team consisting of Tommaso Innocenti, Louis Jannett, Christian Mainka, Vladislav Mladenov and Engin Kirda has published the paper “Only as Strong as the Weakest Link: On the Security of Brokered Single Sign-On on the Web” and revealed… Read More

  • Study Reveals Major Privacy Issues in Single Sign-On Systems

    At the 40th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2024, held from December 9-13 in Honolulu, Hawaii, the paper “Single Sign-On Privacy: We Still Know What You Did Last Summer” by Maximilian Westers, Andreas Mayer, and Louis Jannett, was awarded… Read More

  • TLS-Attacker Wins Award at International Competition

    At the recent ACSAC 2024 (Annual Computer Security Applications Conference), the TLS-Attacker security framework won second place in the prestigious Artifacts Competition and Impact Award. The international competition recognizes software artifacts with high scientific and industrial relevance. TLS-Attacker is an… Read More