Our chair performs research and teaching in the area of IT Security with the focus on Network Security and Online Privacy. Our goal is to advance the state of the art in research and to educate qualified computer scientists in the area of IT Security who are able to meet the challenges of the growing demand on securing IT Systems and provide data protection in various areas of our life and society. To this end, we offer a unique English-taught master programme in Cyber Security.

Contact us

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andriy Panchenko
BTU Cottbus–Senftenberg
Konrad-Wachsmann-Allee 5
03046 Cottbus
VG 1C, room 2.18

T: +49 (0) 355 69 2610
F: +49 (0) 355 69 2127
andriy.panchenko(at)b-tu.de

Office

Katrin Willhöft
VG 1C, room 2.27

T: +49 (0) 355 69 2236
F: +49 (0) 355 69 2127
Katrin.Willhoeft(at)b-tu.de

News

Artem Nazarenko successfully defended his doctoral thesis on December 4, 2025. Congratulations!

Asya Mitseva successfully defended her doctoral thesis on July 8, 2025. Congratulations!

Our paper "Stop, Don’t Click Here Anymore: Boosting Website Fingerprinting By Considering Sets of Subpages" is accepted at the top-level security conference Usenix Security Symposium 2024

Collaborative project Energy Innovation Center is accepted! The Chair of IT Security@BTU becomes funding for six positions for four years, including the establishment of a Young Investigator Research Group.

Our module Introduction to Cyber Security is nominated for BTU teaching award and is in the final round of the competition.

Congratulations to our student, Ms. Zineb Selsouli, for DAAD Award 2021!

Werner Boie Prize 2020 for power plant research in relation to IT security goes to our employee Ms Franka Schuster. Congratulations!

Our paper "TrafficSliver: Fighting Website Fingerprinting Attacks with Traffic Splitting" is accepted at the top-level security conference ACM CCS 2020

News (Archive)

We are hiring several PhD students and PostDocs!

BSI project medCS.5: Cyber Security for Medical Data Exchange: 5G Campus Network for Clinical and eHealth Applications is accepted. Together with two companies and two research institutions, the Chair of IT Security@BTU will work for two years (2023 - 2024) on the development and evaluation of novel methods for the detection of sophisticated attacks on hospitals.

BMBF project WAIKIKI: Knowledge-based Anomaly Detection using Artificial Intelligence in Critical Infrastructures (WAIKIKI) is accepted (two full-time researcher positions for Chair of IT Security@BTU). Together with three companies, one university and three large energy producers, the Chair of IT Security@BTU (project coordinator) will work for three years (2020 - 2023) on the development and evaluation of innovative methods for a self-learning detection of anomalies caused by attacks with a focus on communication networks in the field of energy supply.

BMBF project KISS_KI: Artificial Intelligence for simple and transferable protection of Critical Infrastructures (KISS_KI Simple & Scalable) is accepted. Together with four companies, two research institutions, and two water supply facilities, the Chair of IT Security@BTU will work for three years (2020 - 2023) on the development and evaluation of novel methods for protection and attack detection on industrial facilities of water supply companies.

Funding for three full-time research positions (2020 – 2022) for the IT Security Chair@BTU as part of the EU project Intelligent Security and Privacy for an Innovative Region (INSPIRE) to solve security and privacy problems in three areas: smart cities, energy grids of the future, and Industry 4.0.

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