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22.10.2020 12:27
Student project at Saarland University receives high federal funding
The “Entrepreneurial Cybersecurity” master’s course at Saarland University combines cybersecurity and computer science content with founding your own company. Current research topics should be implemented in a marketable manner. A project of the first graduate year is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for one year with around half a million euros.
Roman Tabachnikov, Marius Bleif and Alexander Fink developed a “watchdog for home networks” during their studies at Saarland University. The “watchdog”, a computer the size of a cigarette box with a circuit board, uses machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms to learn the “normal behavior” of networked devices in the household. If a device deviates from this, the “watchdog” sounds the alarm. The system makes a valuable contribution to securing smart homes and informational self-determination in digitized and networked living, according to the announcement by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research for the promotion of the project.
“Our goal is to be able to offer a marketable product by the end of 2021,” says Roman Tabachnikov, one of the three inventors of the “Watchdog”. A test run is planned for this at the beginning of next year. “Households that have Internet-connected devices such as vacuum robots, smart TVs or the like can take part in this product test. You will then be provided with a preliminary version of our device and can give feedback on user-friendliness and functionality, ”explains Tabachnikov. You can register online; participation is free.
The “Watchdog” was created as part of the “Entrepreneurial Cybersecurity” course at Saarland University. The project is now being funded with around half a million euros for one year as part of the “StartUpSecure” initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The three students were supported in the development and elaboration of their business idea by the founding incubator of the Cispa – Helmholtz Center for Information Security.
A detailed press release on the “Entrepreneurial Cybersecurity” course including a description of the “Bitahoy Watchdog” project can be found at:
https://saarland-informatics-campus.de/piece-of-news/startup-im-studium-der-stud…
Additional Information:
Press photos for download for free use in connection with this press release can be found at:
www.uni-saarland.de/universitaet/aktuell/artikel/nr/22526.html
Questions answered:
Team Bitahoy
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Background Saarland Informatics Campus:
800 scientists and around 2000 students from more than 80 nations make the Saarland Informatics Campus (SIC) one of the leading locations for computer science in Germany and Europe. Five globally renowned research institutes, namely the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, the Center for Bioinformatics and the Cluster for “Multimodal Computing and Interaction” as well as the Saarland University with three networked faculties and 21 courses of study cover the entire spectrum of computer science topics.
Additional Information:
https://www.forschung-it-sicherheit-kommunikationssysteme.de/foerderung/bekanntm…
https://www.forschung-it-sicherheit-kommunikationssysteme.de/projekte/bitahoy
http://www.bitahoy.de/test – Registration for the test run and the company’s website
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