Center for Information Security and Trust
Securing critical infrastructure. Strengthening defense resilience.
Research
CISAT spans four interdisciplinary research areas in cybersecurity, from formal methods to the human and societal dimensions of trust.
Cryptography & Secure Computation
Cryptographic protocols, multi-party computation, blockchain consensus, and post-quantum cryptography.
Secure Software
Formal verification, secure software engineering, and other principled approaches for secure and reliable software.
AI Security & Privacy
Robust and trustworthy AI, privacy-preserving machine learning, secure AI-assisted development, and GDPR compliance.
Democratic Technologies & Digital Trust
E-voting, digital identity, usable security, security governance, and the human and organizational dimensions of trust.
Selected Projects
Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Machine Learning
Investigating how multiple parties can train ML models on sensitive data without compromising privacy, combining neuro-symbolic learning with secure multi-party computation.
Optimising Denmark's Cyber Emergency Preparedness
Completed project improving national cyber emergency readiness. Final report published at resilienscenter.dk.
Understanding and Supporting Secure AI Tools in Software Development Teams
Investigating how development teams use and secure AI-assisted software development tools.
Robust AI
Advancing robustness and reliability of AI systems.
PROBABILIST
Probabilistic session types for reliable concurrent and distributed systems.
Publications: see the full list on the ITU Pure portal.
People
Alessandro Bruni
Join us
Interested in a PhD or postdoc position at CISAT? Check open positions at ITU, or contact any of our faculty directly to discuss potential opportunities.
Jonas Kastberg Hinrichsen — now Assistant Professor, Aalborg University
Maryam Sheikhi Garjan — now Postdoc, University of Hamburg
Lorenzo Gentile — now at Consensys
James Hsin-yu Chiang — now Postdoc, Aarhus University
Anders Konring — now at Espresso Systems
Felix Engelman — now Postdoc, Ohio State University
Ravi Kishore — now at BITS
Esra Yeniaras — now at KEA, Copenhagen
Ieva Daukantas — now at Novo Nordisk
Gopinaath Kannabiran
Peter Schneider — now at Everllence, Copenhagen
News & Events
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Recent News
Raha Asadi, Signe Louise Yndigegn, and Oksana Kulyk had a paper at CHI ‘26: “Extract Blade Violates Secure Shot: Exquisite Corpse as a Speculative Design Method”.
Oksana Kulyk and Elda Paja had a paper accepted at REFSQ: “Security under Pressure: How Agile Teams Experience and Manage Security Requirements” (with Dahlia Thaewjaturat).
Paper conditionally accepted at FC Voting: “Flexible Vote Updating: Lessons Learned from a Lab-Based Study” (Harder, Poulsen, Nissen, Kulyk, Giustolisi).
Successfully completed NFC-funded project “Optimising Denmark’s Cyber Emergency Preparedness”. Final report published.
Raha Asadi co-authored Cyberdilemmaer: Om mødet med virkeligheden, a philanthropic project exploring six central dilemmas in contemporary cybersecurity.
Alessandro Bruni received a Velux Experiment Grant (DKK 1.97M) to investigate how multiple parties can collaborate on training machine learning models on sensitive data without compromising privacy, combining neuro-symbolic learning with secure multi-party computation.
Upcoming Talks
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Recent Talks
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Apr 2026 | Jens Myrup Pedersen, Aalborg University (CPH), Denmark | Cyber Ranges: Learning Cybersecurity through gamification and virtual labs |
| 15 Apr 2026 | Sepideh Ghanavati, University of Maine, USA | From Developer Insights to LLM-Powered Privacy Solutions |
| 27 Mar 2026 | Rob Gleasure, CBS, Denmark | Cognitive warfare and scientific research in the Nordics |
| 24 Mar 2026 | David Sands, Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden | The LLMbda Calculus: AI Agents, Conversations, and Information Flow |
| 13 Mar 2026 | Peter Meyer, SDU, Denmark | Cybersecurity and Privacy for Everyone |
See all talks → · Contact Carsten Schürmann to propose a talk.
About
CISAT is the focal point for research and education in cybersecurity at the IT University of Copenhagen, created to protect critical infrastructure sectors across Europe.
Vision
To be a leading center of excellence in cybersecurity and trust research, supporting defense and security communities in shaping resilient, reliable, and ethically grounded digital infrastructures for future missions.
Mission
To advance research and education in cybersecurity, resilience, and trust, enabling defense to safeguard critical infrastructure and mitigate digital threats.
Construction
Reliability, security by design, language-based security, continuous deployment
Verification
Adversary and risk modeling, cyber attack detection, theorem proving, model checking
Organizations
Trustability, governance, legislation, and organizational effects of cybersecurity
Society
Human perceptions of trust, ethics, privacy, and cognitive aspects of security
Courses
CISAT faculty teach research-led cybersecurity courses at ITU at both BSc and MSc level.
Contact
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