SecUrban
Secure information and communication systems for the Smart City

 

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) lie at the heart of smart, interconnected urban infrastructures. Secure and resilient operation is required to enable the availability of ICTs for critical infrastructures such as Energy, Water, Transport or Health.
The ATHENE research area Secure Urban Infrastructures (SecUrban) aims to integrate data, information and infrastructure security and empower city stakeholders for practical operation as well as security incidents.

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Fragile protection of our communications via submarine cables

ATHENE researchers study states' vulnerability to submarine cable failures
Today, we take it for granted that we can call up a website, stream a movie or be active in social networks within seconds. Many people are often unaware that the data transfer takes place via thousands of kilometers of cable laid at the bottom of the ocean. Today, around 98 percent of inter­national Internet traffic is handled via undersea communication cables. Coastal and island states are highly dependent on this physical infrastructure to provide Internet connections. However, although an annual average of about 100 submarine cable failures of human or natural origin occur, there is currently no global analysis that assesses the vulnerability of individual states to failures on a global scale.
ATHENE scientists Jonas Franken, Thomas Reinhold and Prof. Christian Reuter from the Chair of Science and Technology for Peace and Security (PEASEC) at TU Darmstadt have tackled this issue.

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