KIT - AIFB - CII

The research group Critical Information Infrastructures (cii) is part of the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) at the KIT-Department of Economics and Management (WiWi Department), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). We are a member of the Competence Center for Applied Security Technology (KASTEL), the KIT Center Information ˑ Systems ˑ Technologies (KCIST), and the Helmholtz Information and Data Science School for Health (HIDSS4Health).

cii Summer Excursion 2023

(30.05.2023) This year's summer excursion of the cii research group went under blue sky and sunshine on 04. May 2023 to a guided tour and wine tasting to the state winery Kalrsruhe-Durlach followed by a common dinner.

Research Project DIRECTIONS’ Expert Advisory Board Meeting at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Berlin

(10.05.2023) The DIRECTIONS (Data Protection Certification for Educational Information Systems) expert advisory board meeting was held at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Berlin on the 10th of May 2023. The projects’ current status as well as next steps for the piloting phase were discussed.

New Book Chapter “Leveraging Distributed Ledger Technology for Decentralized Mobility-as-a-Service Ticket Systems“ Published

(09.05.2023) Marc Leinweber, Niclas Kannengießer, Hannes Hartenstein, and Ali Sunyaev published a new book chapter entitled “Leveraging Distributed Ledger Technology for Decentralized Mobility-as-a-Service Ticket Systems” in the book “Towards the New Normal in Mobility”.

Congratulations to Manuel Schmidt-Kraepelin for his successful doctoral examination

(03.05.2023) On May 3rd, 2023, Manuel Schmidt-Kraepelin successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis! His dissertation is entitled “Gamified Information Systems for Health Behavior Change“

Late-Breaking Work Presented at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023)

(02.05.2023) Manuel Schmidt-Kraepelin presented the Late-Breaking Work paper "Narrative Transportation in Gamified Information Systems: The Role of Narrative-Task Congruence" at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023). The conference took place in Hamburg, Germany, from April 23 – 29, 2023.

Prof. Dr. Ali Sunyaev was interviewed about the topic of IT security in the field of networked medical devices in the current issue of the journal „Management & Krankenhaus“

(01.05.2023) In the current issue of the journal " Management & Krankenhaus", in an interview Prof. Dr. Ali Sunyaev explains the current state of IT security of networked devices in medical technology in the article titled "Security is not a checkbox that can be ticked off".

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