KASTEL Security Research Labs

In 2021, the Competence Center for Applied Security Technology KASTEL, one of three National Competence Centers founded and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in 2011, was transformed from a network of connected projects into a permanent organization.

Through the Topic “Engineering Secure Systems” (ESS), KASTEL became an integral part of the research program “Engineering Digital Futures” funded by the Helmholtz Association. In this configuration, we pursue cybersecurity research in the long term in order to provide continuous as well as anticipatory support to society in light of the urgent need for action.

The larger research hub lives on as “KASTEL Security Research Labs”. KASTEL Security Research Labs has the unique opportunity to benefit from the extensive and wide-ranging expertise at the Karlsruhe research location due to the institutional partnership of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the FZI Research Center for Information Technology and the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB. Across the institutions, the team works on fundamental and applied research issues in cybersecurity beyond those covered in the program-oriented research of the Topic ESS, covering the further development of fundamental methods as well as the security of concrete applications.