The Chair of IT Security was founded in autumn 2018 and addresses topics in IT Security and Online Privacy. Currently, the research group focuses on the following topics:

• Anonymous Communication
• Privacy Enhancing Technologies
• Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning for Attacks' Detection
• Wireless Security, IoT Security
• Secure Communication in Untrustworthy Environments
• Traffic Analysis, Fingerprinting
• Self-learning Anomaly Detection in Network Traffic and Structures
• Passive Monitoring Approaches for Restrictive Networks (Critical Infrastructures, Control Networks a.o.)