Internal Project Workshop at Deutsche Cyber-Sicherheitsorganisation (DCSO)
20. November 2025 The SOVEREIGN project, funded by the Cyberagentur (Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit) and coordinated by the Universität Hamburg, held its fourth internal workshop at the DCSO in Berlin on November 13-14th, 2025.
The workshop disussed current and future directions of research of the consortium partners. Detailed discussions centered on the progress of individual work packages and the …
SOVEREIGN presenting at Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS'25)
15. October 2025 The SOVEREIGN project, focusing on critical infrastructure protection, presented two research papers at the 2025 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) in Avignon, France. Our first paper introduced a machine learning–based method for tagging security alerts with MITRE ATT&CK tactics, improving threat context and streamlining analyst workflows. The second paper proposed a …
Internal Project Workshop at University of Lübeck
11. July 2025 The SOVEREIGN project, funded by the Cyberagentur (Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit) and coordinated by the Universität Hamburg, held its third internal workshop at the Institute for IT-Security of the University of Lübeck on July 10-11th, 2025.
Hosted in a collaborative setting, the workshop brought together all project partners to assess current progress and align on key objectives. …
Accepted Paper at the Informatik Festival 2025 Workshop
11. July 2025 We are happy to announce that our paper “From Logs to Language: Making OCSF the Open API for Security Data with Tenzir” has been accepted at the Informatik Festival 2025 Workshop for Cybersecurity: Prävention, Detektion und Reaktion mit Open Source-Perspektiven.
Accepted Papers at CNS'25
10. July 2025 Double tap at the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS 2025)!
Abstract: Tagging Alerts to Adversaries: ML-Enabled Classification Using MITRE ATT&CK Framework
An intrusion detection system (IDS) in an enterprise network plays an important role in identifying and alerting suspicious activity. The triggered alerts are generated along with false alarms where a legitimate …
SOVEREIGN presenting at SIC 2025 Symposium
26. May 2025 From May 14th to 15th, 2025, we had the opportunity to present our work at the SIC 2025 Symposium in Halle (Saale), Germany. The event, hosted by the Cyberagentur (Agency for Innovation in Cybersecurity), served as a valuable platform for connecting German government agencies with the research projects they fund, as well as with the broader cybersecurity research community. We were excited to …
Accepted Paper at ARES 2025
15. May 2025 
Accepted Paper at DSN 2025
15. May 2025 
Accepted Paper at the ACNS
08. May 2025 Our paper was accepted at the 23rd International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS'25).
Abstract:
In an era where cyberattacks increasingly target the software supply chain, the ability to accurately attribute code authorship in binary files is critical to improving cybersecurity measures. We propose OCEAN, a contrastive learning-based system for function-level …
Internal Project Workshop at Fraunhofer AISEC
01. April 2025 The SOVEREIGN project, funded by the Cyberagentur (der Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit) and led by the Universität Hamburg, organized their third internal workshop that was held at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC) Munich on 25-26th March 2025.
At the workshop, all partners reviewed the objectives and the ongoing project work. The discussion covered …