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 …
GI-WebTalk #3: Sicherheitskonzepte und Geopolitik
01. November 2024 Im dritten WebTalk unserer Reihe „Cybersicherheit und technologische Souveränität“ widmen wir uns zunächst den völkerrechtlichen Aspekten der Cybersicherheit und analysieren, wie internationale Normen und Verträge den Schutz kritischer Infrastrukturen und die staatliche Handlungsfähigkeit im Cyberraum sicherstellen. Der zweite Vortrag wird Ansätze zur Attribution von geheimen Nachrichten im …
Cyberagentur extends funding for phase 3
05. September 2024 On August 20, we presented our results of the second phase of the Cyberagentur’s HSK call. We received a lot of positive feedback and got attention from other government agencies. We are happy to announce that we made it to the next phase and will receive 10 million in funding over the next three years to pave the way for securing critical infrastructures. We are thrilled, excited, and …
GI-WebTalk #2: Strategien und Attribution im Cyberraum
16. August 2024 Der zweite Webtalk der Reihe „Cybersicherheit und technologische Souveränität“ widmet sich der Analyse aktueller Angriffsstrategien sowie der Attribution von Cyberangriffen aus sicherheitspolitischer Perspektive. In den Fachvorträgen werden sowohl die technischen Möglichkeiten zur Detektion und Abwehr von Cyberbedrohungen als auch die Herausforderungen diskutiert, die mit der Identifizierung der …
Presentation of paper at ARES PCSCI Workshop
05. August 2024 On July 30, 2024, at the International Workshop on Physical and Cyber Security in Interdependent Critical Infrastructures (PCSCI), which is an EU Projects Symposium Workshop held with the 19th ARES Conference 2024 in Vienna, Austria, our team member, Dr. Anum Talpur, presented the vision of our project SOVEREIGN.
The event gathered many researchers and experts from around the world who work in …
Cyberagentur visiting SOVEREIGN in Hamburg
19. July 2024 On July 16, 2024, Prof. Dr. Christian Hummert, head of the Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit (Cyberagentur), with Dr. Gerald Walther and Dr. André Müller visited the Universität Hamburg to meet up with the SOVEREIGN project members to get a hold of the current state of the project. The members presented a coherent modular architecture to detect and defend against advanced cyber …
