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Held in late January 2026, sTARTUp Day—the largest business festival in the Baltics—once again brought the startup community together, with more than 3,000 attendees over three days of inspiration and networking. Known for its impressive scale, the festival features multiple stages, a massive demo area, pitching competitions, seminars, intense matchmaking,… Read More »We’ll Deal with Cybersecurity Later – Strategy or a Ticking Time Bomb? The CHESS Project at sTARTUp Day

Marking a significant milestone, the University of Tartu’s Institute of Computer Science brought the 30th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems (NordSec) to Tartu, Estonia. The NordSec conference is one of Northern Europe’s longest-running forums for cybersecurity research. Conference details: NordSec, held annually since 1996, brings together cybersecurity researchers from… Read More »CHESS-Sponsored 30th NordSec Conference Brings Record Participation to Tartu

TARTU, ESTONIA – The CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub fostered international collaboration at its recent brokerage event, hosted by the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Tartu on November 11, 2025. The event brought together a diverse cohort of academics and industry professionals from across Europe, including Estonia, Czechia, Ukraine,… Read More »CHESS Brokerage Event at the University of Tartu, Estonia

We’re still buzzing from the incredible energy at the OpenSSL Conference! What did we bring, you ask? Not just another slide deck, but a fully playable board game designed to tackle one of cybersecurity’s biggest upcoming challenges: post-quantum migration. The response was nothing short of phenomenal. Seeing seasoned cryptographers, developers, and… Read More »Checkmate, Quantum Threats: Post-Quantum Board Game Steals the Show at OpenSSL Conference

Remember those sci-fi movies about super-powerful quantum computers? Well, the future is getting closer, and it brings both amazing opportunities and new risks. That’s exactly what we talked about at our recent “Post-Quantum Cryptography in Practice” event. We know it can sound complicated, so we made it practical. We brought… Read More »Diving into the Post-Quantum World

The 5th Workshop on education, training, and awareness in cybersecurity (ETACS) took place in Ghent on 11.8.2025. This year, the truly international character of the event was confirmed by Razvan Beuran’s invited talk focusing on the Japanese experience in cybersecurity education. Furthermore, researchers from multiple countries (Czechia, France, Germany, Italy,… Read More »Workshop on Education, Training and Awareness in Cybersecurity at ARES’25

Intelligent infrastructures (IIs) are developed in various domains, including the IoT of vehicles, industrial IoT, eServices, eHealthcare, and SmartCities applications. They aim to provide a higher level of convenience for humanity, but with those promises have come privacy and security issues and concerns. The workshop on Security and Privacy in… Read More »International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Intelligent Infrastructures at ARES’25

“Czech and Estonian researchers are joining forces to build a cross-border cybersecurity hub that will strengthen Europe’s digital defences in the face of growing cyber threats.” The CHESS initiative runs for 4 years from 2023 to 2026 and focuses on identifying strengths and gaps in six key areas: the Internet… Read More »CHESS Article Published in Horizon, the Research and Innovation Magazine

As part of the CHESS project, Martin Macák from Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, spent March to July at the University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, researching a process-oriented risk management approach applied in a case study involving a Czech carsharing company. He presented this ongoing research to staff and students… Read More »Research Fellowship of Martin Macák from the Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

The Cyber-Security Excellence Hub in Estonia and South Moravia (Horizon Europe CHESS project), the Estonian Academy of Sciences and Cybernetica organised the Future Cryptography Conference in Tallinn on 21 May 2025. There were over 70 participants from universities, companies and public institutions, from Estonia and Czech Republic, but also Poland… Read More »Future Cryptography Conference 2025 in Tallinn