Experts on the security challenges facing critical infrastructure
The lecture series “Secure Critical Infrastructures” will take place for the 12th time in the coming winter semester 2025/2026 at TU Darmstadt. The collaboration between the departments of Social Sciences, History, and Computer Science will once again be led by Prof. Dr.-Ing Matthias Hollick (Secure Mobile Networks – SEEMOO), Prof. Dr. Jens Ivo Engels (Modern and Contemporary History), and Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Reuter (Science for Technology for Peace and Security – PEASEC).
According to the BSI definition, critical infrastructures are “organizations or facilities of vital importance to the state community, the failure or impairment of which would result in lasting supply bottlenecks, significant disruptions to public safety, or other dramatic consequences.
This definition can be broken down into the following sectors:
Recent years have made it clear that Germany needs to invest significantly more in the maintenance and protection of critical infrastructure – in every respect. The lecture series, supported by the LOEWE Center emergenCITY, highlights various areas of the individual sectors and their respective challenges, but also provides a general understanding of criticality and resilience.
This semester, topics such as crisis communication and the protection options for terrestrial infrastructure, as well as flood prevention and the regulation of critical infrastructure from an economic perspective, will be discussed.
Lecture series “Secure Critical Infrastructures” Wednesdays from 4:15 p.m. to 5:55 p.m. in the 2025/2026 winter semester
On site: Room S103/123 (Old Main Building, Hochschulstraße 1, 64289 Darmstadt)
Digitally on Zoom: Students can register via TUCaN and receive the link via Moodle; guest students can book a free ticket and will be sent the access link.
Further information and ticket booking for guest students can be found here.
