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A consortium meeting for the EU-funded project CYBER-SECURITY EXCELLENCE HUB IN ESTONIA AND SOUTH MORAVIA (CHESS) was held on February 5-6, 2025, at the Brno University of Technology (BUT) and the South Moravian Innovation Centre (JIC). Participants from the commercial, public, and academic sectors from Estonia and the South Moravia… Read More »CHESS consortium meeting 2025 at Brno, Czech Republic

Various fellowships in 2024 were organized under the CHESS project between Estonia and South Moravia. These fellowships facilitate the exchange of researchers between Estonia and South Moravia for joint research, skill development, and access to cutting-edge technologies, advancing knowledge sharing, academic excellence, and the development of new research initiatives. These… Read More »CHESS 2024 Fellowships in Estonia and South Moravia

The CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub Brokerage Event Thaya was organised by Brno University of Technology and CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub partners in the South Moravia region from July 31st to Aug 1st 2024. The goal of the event was to connect people and institutions from different sectors. The government, academia,… Read More »CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub Brokerage Event Thaya

The International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Intelligent Infrastructures 2024 (SP2I’24) aims to collect the most relevant ongoing research efforts in privacy and security in intelligent infrastructures. KEYNOTES In “On Value of Large-Scale Blackbox Analysis of Software and Hardware Cryptographic Implementations”, Petr Svenda presented lessons from large-scale analysis of… Read More »International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Intelligent Infrastructures at ARES’24

This year, the Workshop on Education, training, and Awareness in Cybersecurity 2024 (ETACS’24) took place in Vienna. This CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub-affiliated event was focused on discussions, paper presentations, and keynote dealing with modern trends in cybersecurity education, training, and awareness raising. The keynote entitled “The State of Cybersecurity Today – Exploring the Effectiveness of Cybersecurity Defenses… Read More »Workshop on Education, Training and Awareness in Cybersecurity at ARES’24

The Cyber-Security Excellence Hub in Estonia and South Moravia (CHESS), the Estonian Academy of Sciences, the Estonian Information System Authority (RIA) and Cybernetica organised the Future Cryptography Conference in Tallinn on May 13, 2024. Over 80 participants from different European universities, companies and public institutions took part in the event.… Read More »Future Cryptography Conference in Tallinn

Brno University of Technology and Masaryk University organized a public seminar within the series Brno Security Meetings where students, researchers and other members of the local cybersecurity community meet to discuss the latest trends and developments in different areas of cybersecurity. This time, Katarina Galanská, a researcher at Masaryk University… Read More »Brno Cybersecurity Meetings

A truly international group of scientists, industry representatives and young researchers gathered in early spring Tallinn to advance cross-border knowledge exchange on process theory. In CHESS Challenge Area 3, we focus on, among other topics developing methods and tools to analyse and verify cryptographic protocols. While concrete frameworks like “universally… Read More »Workshop on Process Theory for Security Protocols and Cryptography in Tallinn

The first CHESS Industrial Day took place on 8 December at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University. The event brought together researchers and practitioners in formal methods from industry and academia and provided an excellent opportunity to exchange practical experience with methods and tools for software analysis/verification/testing. The program included… Read More »CHESS Industrial Day 2023