The ZISC center has published its annual report for 2025. The information security landscape is undergoing a significant disruption. The reason behind this is the rapid emergence of new technologies like AI on the one hand, but also the prospect of quantum technologies. On a geopolitical level, the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East
The ZISC center has published its annual report for 2024. During this year, ZISC continued to work on its core mission which is work on significant and fundamental information security and privacy problems together with is industry partners. Particular topics of focus this year included the research on sovereign smartphone platform, email phishing in large
Researchers from the SPY Lab led by Professor Florian Tramèr along with collaborators have succeeded in extracting secret information on the large language model behind ChatGPT. The team responsibly disclosed the results of their “model stealing attack” to OpenAI. Following the disclosure, the company immediately implemented countermeasures to protect the model. This work represents the
One-fifth of all cyberattacks target the financial sector, a share that is widely expected to rise. As cyberattacks become more frequent, the quantification and measurement of cyber risk and uncertainty will become pressing issues for policymakers. ZISC supported research from Hans Gersbach and Fikri Pitsuwan that discusses the benefits of ‘bug bounty’ programmes, in which
Schwarz Group is the latest partner of the ZISC center. With almost 600,000 employees in more than 30 different countries, the Schwarz Group is among the top retail groups in the world. Based in Neckarsulm, Germany, its pillars in food retailing are Lidl and Kaufland. Schwarz Digits as IT and digital division offers compelling products
Over the past decade, hardware manufacturers have introduced special support to enable cloud users to safely perform computation on untrusted cloud deployments. This technology, called confidential computing, provides cloud users with guarantees about the applications that they execute and confidentiality and integrity for the data. Currently, confidential computing is employed across various sectors including finance,
For his fundamental contributions to cryptography and information security, Professor Ueli Maurer from the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science has been appointed Full Member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW). The Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences SATW is the most important network of experts for engineering sciences in Switzerland and is in contact with
Zurich Information Security and Privacy Center (ZISC) was established in 2003 to bring academia and industry together to address the information security challenges of tomorrow. Today, this mission remains more relevant than ever. On March 6, 2024, we celebrated the 20 years of the ZISC center with a special event and a networking Apero at ETH Zurich’s Audi
On March 6, 2024, we celebrate the 20 years of the ZISC center with a special event and a networking Apéro at ETH Zurich’s Audi Max and Dozentenfoyer. Learn more about the program and register here: ZISC: Celebrating 20 years of ZISC! We are looking forward to see you there!
In order to promote research and innovation in cyber-defence, our partners EPFL and Cyber-Defence (CYD) Campus are now opening calls for different fellowship opportunities aimed at Master, Doctoral and Postdoctoral researchers as well as future entrepreneurs: Doctoral Fellowships (up to 4 years plus 1-year potential extension): deadline on February 23rd, 2024 (17:00 CET) Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships (up