ZISC researchers from the groups led by Professor Srdjan Capkun and ETH Assistant Professor Shweta Shinde have developed a new software architecture that can divide a smartphone up into several isolated domains that are completely independent of one another. Now, the two post-doctoral researchers Ivan Puddu and Moritz Schneider have founded the spin-off Soverli, which
Dennis Hofheinz, Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Test of Time Award for his 2017 paper, co-authored with Professor Eike Kiltz (Ruhr-University Bochum) and Professor Kathrin Hövelmanns (Eindhoven University of Technology). The paper, “A Modular Analysis of the Fujisaki-Okamoto Transformation”, proved influential in the development of
We are extremely pleased to announce that Swissquote has joined the ZISC center. Swissquote is Switzerland’s market leader in digital banking. Over three million financial products can be traded on its innovative platforms. Swissquote’s core competencies include global stock market trading, the trading and custody of crypto assets, forex trading aas well as savings and
Professor Kaveh Razavi joins the ZISC Faculty. Prof. Razavi is an associate professor in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zürich where he leads the Computer Security Group. He is also affiliated with the Department of Computer Science. His research interests include computer systems and security with a special focus on
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