Gravitation grant for challenges in Cyber Security

The ‘Challenges in Cyber Security’ project brings together top researchers from the hard sciences in the cyber security field. This, according to Minister Dijkgraaf (Education, Culture and Science), places the research among ‘the world's scientific top’, and the project will thus receive a substantial NWO Gravitation grant. 
QISS member Christian Schaffner will be working on the project and comments: ‘I’m really excited to get started with this big cybersecurity project. Together with the other consortium partners from TU/e, VU, RU and CWI, we are taking a systematic approach to make sure our cyber systems are secure. For example, we address long-term security by looking ahead to the time when quantum computers could break the encryption that keeps our online data safe right now. Even though that might be years away, bad actors could collect encrypted information today and crack it open later when they have the right tools. So we’re getting ahead of the game to protect our data for the future.’