ETH: Expansion of information security
ETH Zurich can expand the Zurich Information Security and Privacy Center.
This is made possible according to the online portal ETH News an earmarked donation by Zürcher Kantonalbank to the ETH Zurich Foundation in the amount of five million Swiss francs over the next ten years.
Information security is one of the strategically important research focal points of ETH Zurich, which the Department of Computer Science in particular has been intensively investigating for years. The planned expansion of the Zurich Information Security and Privacy Center (ZISC) will strengthen research, education and training in this area.
According to Director Srdjan Capkun, a central component of the new ZISC is the planned "ETH-ZISC Open Lab". This will be an open platform where scientists and IT specialists from the partners and companies involved in ZISC will be able to engage in a lively exchange of ideas. Those involved hope that closer contact between researchers and business representatives will enable the needs of industry to be met even better and that a rapid transfer of research results into everyday applications will result. Workshops, seminars and conferences will be held regularly. The Open Lab will offer space for 20 students, researchers and business partners. Such an exchange platform has been a great need for a long time. The donation will finally make it possible to set this up.
Locally, the ETH-ZISC Open Lab is close to the Institute for Information Security of the Department of Computer Science.
The detailed article by Peter Rüegg can be here can be read.
