Main applicant: prof.dr. Tanja (T.) Lange, Eindhoven University of Technology
Co-applicants: prof.dr. Lejla (L.) Batina (RU), prof.dr.ir. Herbert (H.J.) Bos (VU), prof.dr. Marten (M.) van Dijk (CWI/VU) prof.dr. Christian (C.) Schaffner (UvA)
The ‘Challenges in Cyber Security’ project brings together top researchers from the hard sciences in the cyber security field. In the words of Minister Dijkgraaf (Education, Culture and Science), places the research among ‘the world’s scientific top’. Three of the 5 PIs and 12 additional researchers who are cooperating in this project are also in AMSec.
Cyber security is often portrayed as an educational problem or a resource problem, shifting blame on users, system administrators, or the budget holders limiting the system administrators’ abilities. However, there are many hard problems that remain unsolved and that require a coordinated scientific investigation. The “Challenges in Cyber Security” project brings together top researchers from the hard sciences areas of cyber security to tackle these hard open problems.Click here to read more.
The project has the impressive sum of 21.5 million euros attached.