Potsdamer Conference for National CyberSecurity 2024

Agenda [.pdf]
Conference brochure [.pdf]
Recordings of all Keynotes and Panels on tele-TASK
Press Release [.pdf] (German only)
Hashtag of the event: #HPI_Security

Claudia Plattner

President of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)

"We must bring speed to the fore: reacting quickly, doing things quickly, doing them together, and also being practiced and well-rehearsed with each other so that it works."

Holger Münch

President of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA)

"We can see that the perpetrators continue to develop the methods they have developed in recent years and that AI also plays a role in this. In this respect, we are called upon to keep pace with this topic, including on our side."

Sinan Selen

Vice President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV)

"Let me remind you that we have a not inconsiderable number of elections ahead of us in democratic countries. And accordingly, disinformation in this context is something we have to deal with very intensively."

Major General Jürgen Setzer

Deputy Command CIR and CISO of the Bundeswehr

"Today, data is the most important resource in our societies. And if you accept that, IT is ultimately our society's nervous system. And this must be protected because, without a nervous system, states and armies cannot function."

Prof. Christian Dörr

Head of the "Cybersecurity – Enterprise Security" research group at HPI

"We are largely on the right track but still far from where we need to be. We still need a joint effort to raise our overall security level in Germany to a completely different level to deal with these major challenges, which are rapidly developing."

Photo Gallery: Potsdam Conference for National Cybersecurity 2024

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The conference in the media

Experten beraten über Cybersicherheit (ARD tagesschau, from minute 10:03) (German only)
Cybersicherheitskonferenz in Potsdam (rbb 24 Brandenburg aktuell) (German only)
Livestream of the press conference (Phoenix) (German only)

The conference on HPI Social Media

How do we protect ourselves from disinformation on social media?

Interview with Dr. Katja Muñoz

The spread and commercialization of generative AI technologies in the global super-election year 2024 are fuelling concerns that these technologies could be misused to disinformation the population and thus endanger trust in democracy. In this interview, Dr. Katja Muñoz, Research Fellow at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e.V. | DGAP, explains why securing information is essential to cyber security.

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How do we prepare critical infrastructures for cyber attacks?

Interview mit Jan Hoff

For critical infrastructures such as energy suppliers, hospitals, and waterworks, reliable cyber security is more important than ever and indispensable for our social well-being. At the same time, however, this undertaking is also an immense challenge - from a technical, organizational, and regulatory perspective. We spoke to Jan Hoff about his role as Principal Industrial Incident Responder at Dragos and the best ways to prepare for cyber attacks.

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AI, Disinformation & Cybersecurity

Prof. Christian Dörr in the HPI science podcast Neuland

We are in a global super-election year—almost half of the world's population is called to vote. Against this backdrop, aspects of cyber security become even more critical. In this podcast episode, we discuss artificial intelligence, disinformation, and the risk to critical infrastructure. Prof. Christian Dörr, Chairman of the Potsdam Conference on National Cyber Security, assesses the situation.

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