The project teams consist of cybersecurity talents from both countries, solving important problems of daily business life. The Accelerator thus combines startup culture with the strengths of the cyber nation Israel and German applicated research in cybersecurity. The program is a joint activity of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT in Darmstadt and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem; the next round will start in the second half of 2018. Applications for the next round are now open.
Research partners of the first round were Allianz and Cisco, who also participated in the final evaluation of the project's results. The award for the best project team went to „Routing Security Against Prefix Hijacks“, a solution to make Internet infrastructures more secure: Routers governing Internet traffic are often vulnerable, as many network operators still use an unsecured routing protocols. The winning team therefore developed a solution to make routing between large parts of the Internet more secure.
"Cybersecurity is the basic prerequisite for digitalization. Whether it is in automotive, production or critical infrastructures - digitalization cannot be successful without confidence in the safety and security of new technologies," said Prof. Reimund Neugebauer, President of the Fraunhofer-Society.
