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Institute Profile
The Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) is one of the world’s leading research institutions in the fields of cybersecurity and privacy protection. The Institute addresses key security challenges in business, public administration and society, and conducts cutting-edge, practice-oriented research and innovation development. Numerous prizes and awards attest to the high quality of its research findings and developments.
The institute’s staff address current issues relating to cybersecurity and data protection, and develop new technologies and practical solutions to real-world challenges in this field. The institute supports its partners in areas such as the design of new IT systems, the protection of IT infrastructures, and the development of new products and services. At the same time, the institute provides advice on key IT security issues and is actively involved in national and international standardisation.
Prof. Dr. Michael Waidner
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Darmstadt
Münster/Westfalen
Heilbronn
Science Ombudsman
Prof. Dr Rüdiger Grimm is the Science Ombudsman at Fraunhofer SIT.
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Fraunhofer SIT is one of the five partners in the ATHENE Research Center
ATHENE is a research facility of the Fraunhofer Society comprising its two Fraunhofer Institutes, SIT and IGD, with the participation of TU Darmstadt, Goethe University Frankfurt, and Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. The center is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art (HMWK) and is based in the science city of Darmstadt.
