On 2 May 2019, we discussed with Prof. Christopher Hayter about the interesting question: Immigration and Security in the United States: Bad Policy or Good Politics? Over the past decade, United States has grappled with managing an increasingly backlogged immigration system while receiving an unprecedented influx of asylum seekers from Latin America. More recently, the […]
Since 2017, we have been working on the question of how to measure the extent of damage from cyber attacks as part of an EU-funded project "Enterprises intangible Risk Management via Economic models based on simulation of modern cyber attacks (Hermeneut)". What damage does a company's brand, image and patents suffer as a result of […]
On 27 September 2019, we discussed together with Prof. Brian J. Gerber and Melanie Gall of the Arizona State University the following question: The Evolution of Emergency Management Policy and Practice in the United States: Key Factors in Performance Improvement. About the topic: The presentation provided a brief history of emergency management policy and practice […]
At 24 October we invited yout to another PizzaSeminar on NATO’s past and future and Poland’s role in the Atlantic Alliance’s collective defence system – from a Polish and a German perspective On this occasion, our Polish cooperation partners from the Foundation Institute for Eastern Studies presented an anthology published on the occasion of Poland's […]
Dr. Amit Sheniak will talk about his research on the participation of private institutions in national and international, formal and informal processes of digital security policy. This event will be held in English.
Kacper Rekawek will present his current research focused on foreign fighters from the conflict in Ukraine.
Dr. Ulrik Franke will speak about the growing market of cyber insurance and its key challenges.
Serge Stroobants and Mohib Iqbal from the Australian Institute for Economics and Peace will present the recently completed first report on the German Peace Index.
PizzaSeminar: China and Network Great Power Ambitions Discussions about the security of 5G networks in Germany always include the question of whether Chinese technology providers should be allowed to participate in the construction of the networks. Emily de la Bruyère and Nathan Picarsic from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies have analysed how the […]
BIGS, in cooperation with VTT Finland, one of the leading research institutions in Europe, has taken a closer look at the ecosystem of supply chains and considered the financial impact of attacks on them. We would like to present the main findings of this analysis in the familiar format of the PizzaSeminar, on August 19 from 12:00 - 14:00 at the IABG in Berlin Mitte.
Illegal trade is associated with lost profits for other actors, tax evasion and other harmful effects. To date, the costs of such activities have mostly been viewed through the lens of national accounts, but the effects on economic activity as a whole have not been considered. After some opening remarks by Jürgen Storbeck, Dr. […]
The factory of the future should be automated, interconnected and at the same time secure. To meet these requirements, however, a number of technical solutions must be devised. In particular, the aspect of security is often still neglected. The CyberFactory#1 project therefore aims at combining resilience against cyber and cyber-physical threats with optimization of manufacturing processes from the outset.
