CZS endowed professorship for AI-supported cyber resilience

Focus:	Artificial Intelligence
Type of funding:	Individual funding programmes
Programme:	CZS endowed professorships at universities of applied sciences
Funded institution:	Mainz University of Applied Sciences

The endowed professorship develops and applies intelligent methods to increase the resilience of digital systems to cyber attacks. It makes a key contribution to innovation and transferability in the field of cyber resilience - with direct benefits for companies, public institutions and society.

Goals

The "AI-supported cyber resilience" endowed professorship investigates how artificial intelligence methods can be used to make digital systems more resistant to cyber attacks. The starting point is the increasing vulnerability of networked infrastructures in business, administration and critical areas. The aim is to develop AI models that can detect attacks at an early stage, respond adaptively and strengthen existing IT landscapes without major upheaval. Processes in the assessment of compliance are also to be supported. To this end, machine learning methods and threat models are being researched and approaches to explainable and robust AI are being used. The project is being implemented in close cooperation with companies and public institutions in order to incorporate practical data and real-life application scenarios. The project contributes to digital sovereignty and creates applicable solutions that help organizations to detect security incidents faster, evaluate them better and maintain operations even under attack.

The professorship has not yet been filled.