The CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security is a German national Big Science Institution within the Helmholtz Association. Its research agenda encompasses all aspects of Information Security.
As a Helmholtz Center for Information Security, we are dedicated to cutting-edge foundational research combined with innovative application-oriented research in the areas of cybersecurity, privacy, and artificial intelligence.
Stay informed about the latest breakthroughs, publications, and innovations from our research teams. Explore our original insights, research articles, and press releases, and don’t miss out on upcoming events and conferences.
We at CISPA strive to offer scientists, along with their partners and families a pleasant and friendly living environment. This means that at our research center, all of us are on first-name terms.
Transferring our research into applications and products is one of CISPA's core tasks. In this way, we ensure that the economy and society at large can benefit from pioneering innovations, state-of-the-art technologies and our latest research findings.
At CISPA, we organize and participate in a variety of knowledge transfer activities. They range from public events and trade fairs to policy consultation and citizens' dialogues.
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This blog takes its readers on a journey through the startup world at our CISPA incubator. We tell you about their sparkling ideas, about the everyday life of our founders and about the technologies with which they want to improve our future.
What makes academic spin-offs so special? We asked Inputlab founder Dominic Steinhöfel and CISPA Faculty Prof. Andreas Zeller three questions.
Three days of innovation, cybersecurity & startup spirit: At Hack the Stack 2025, teams built real solutions for digital security.
Contexxt.ai offers SMEs secure GenAI with open source and full data sovereignty while avoiding dependence on US clouds.
At the CISPA Pitch Day 2025 in Berlin, research and entrepreneurship came together.
Kertos has secured the largest investment to date in an incubator startup at CISPA and, for the first time, Series A financing.
Data has long been called the “new oil”, but in the age of AI, it has become far more than a raw resource.
