16. September 2025

Cybernation Deutschland: Transatlantic Panel on Cyber­security and Technological Advancements, Darmstadt

The panel will bring together high-level stakeholders with leading experts from both the United States and Germany that will discuss and explore opportunities and challenges in transatlantic cooperation on the research of digital transformation and the associated cybersecurity risks and solutions.

Particular attention is paid to technological innovation, secure digital infrastructures, and joint strategic priorities between the U.S. and Germany, with consideration of the geopolitical and economical tensions.

The accompanying exhibition to the panel displays the latest exhibits from ATHENE research.

25.-26. September 2025

24th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG 2025), Darmstadt

Biometrics provides efficient and reliable solutions to recognize individuals. With increasing number of identity theft and miss-use incidents we do observe a significant fraud in e-commerce and thus growing interests on trustworthiness of person authentication. Nowadays we find biometric applications in areas like border control, national ID cards, e-banking, e-commerce, e-health etc. Large-scale applications such as the upcoming European Union Entry Exit System (EES), the Visa Information System (VIS) and Unique Identification (UID) in India require high accuracy and reliability, interoperability, scalability, and usability. Many of these are joint requirements also for forensic applications.

Multimodal biometrics combined with fusion techniques can improve recognition performance. Efficient searching or indexing methods can accelerate identification efficiency. Additionally, quality of captured biometric samples can strongly influence the performance. Moreover, mobile biometrics is now a well-established area and biometricsbased smartphones can support deployment and acceptance of biometric systems.

However, concerns about security and privacy cannot be neglected. The relevant techniques in presentation attack detection (liveness detection) and template protection are about to supplement biometric systems, in order to improve robustness to (deep) fakes and prevent potential attacks such as cross matching, identity theft, etc.

The BIOSIG 2025 conference addresses these issues and will present innovations and best practices that can be transferred into future applications. The conference is jointly organized by the Competence Center for Applied Security Technology (CAST), the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), the European Association for Biometrics (EAB), the Norwegian Biometrics Laboratory (NBL), National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity (ATHENE), the Research Institute for Cyber Defence (CODE) of the Universität der Bundeswehr München, the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD, EURASIP Journal on Information Security, and the special interest group BIOSIG of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI). Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.

07.-09. October 2025

it-sa Expo & Congress, Nuremberg

it-sa Expo&Congress in Nuremberg is Europe's largest trade fair for IT security. The trade fair covers the entire range of products and services in the field of cybersecurity: hardware, software, training and consulting services as well as Security as a Service. Important topics at it-sa are cloud and mobile security, data and network security, the protection of critical infrastructures, and industrial Security.