In Switzerland, whistleblowers are relatively poorly protected compared to other countries. Reporting misconduct often exposes whistleblowers to the risk of termination, legal charges, or discredit. The research team led by Prof. Dr. Petra Asprion and Frank Grimberg at the University of Economics has been working on the development of a…

Our competence center Digital Trust is very happy to welcome our guest Tesfaye Bayu Bati from Hawassa University, Ethiopia at our offices in Basel. Supported by the SNF Scientific Exchange program, our guest is staying in Switzerland for one month. During that time, we are contributing to an increasingly important…

The EU H2020 GEIGER project was a 4 million Euro, multi-year research project with 17 partners from 9 different countries with the aim to increase cybersecurity of small and micro enterprises. At the project end, we presented the results to the European Commission in Brussels in January 2023. The presentation…

We are happy, that we could finish our very promising GEIGER Project (https://www.cyber-geiger.eu/) founded from the EU via Horizon 2020 research program. The GEIGER project was a 4 million Euro, multi-year research project with 17 partners from 9 different countries with the aim to increase the cybersecurity of micro…

On 7th and 8th of March 2023, our Competence Center Digital Trust kicked-off a new research project under the leadership of the School of Education (PHF) Freiburg. The project, named MECyS aims at ‘Micro-Enterprise Cyber Security’. It has a duration of 28 months and we collaborate with partners from Greece,…

Our team presented three research topics within the field of cybersecurity and blockchain at this year's Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2023 (HICSS). This years conference welcomed 678 papers out of 1,429 submissions by 2,012 authors into their 11 topic communities.