Information systems used in critical infrastructures without built-in security functions are unthinkable today. Security refers to the fact that protection goals are achieved in spite of malicious attacks and system failures. Typical security goals can be confidentiality, integrity, accountability and availability. Security in information systems addresses both technical and organizational aspects, such as building and establishing security concepts or security infrastructure as well as risk analysis and management..
From 1989-1994 Hannes Federrath studied computer science and earned a Ph. D. degree from Dresden University of Technology in 1998. He worked as a researcher in the group on Information and coding theory at Dresden University of Technology from 1994-1999. Between September 1999 and August 2000 he was a guest researcher at the International Computer Science Institute. Between September 2000 and August 2001 he was a guest professor, and until March 2003 he served as the head of the working group on IT-Security at Freie University Berlin, Department of Computer Science in Germany. From 2003-2011 he worked at University Regensburg as a full professor for Information Security Management. Since April 2011 he is leading the working group Security in distributed Systems at University of Hamburg, Department of Computer Science.
