A delegation from the Cyber Security Council Germany visited Ben-Gurion University of the Negev on Monday to explore future collaboration opportunities of interest to its members. The delegation comprised Arne Schönbohm, President and Hans-Wilhelm Dünn, Vice President of the Cyber Security Council Germany and Dr. Christian Ehler, Member of the European Parliament. A further delegation will visit in Spring 2015.
The delegation met with BGU’s VP and Dean for R&D Prof. Dan Blumberg and his deputy Prof. Angel Porgador as well as Prof. Yuval Elovici, Director, Telekom Innovation Laboratories at BGU (T-Labs), Department of Information Systems Engineering, Prof. Bracha Shapira, Head, Department of Information Systems Engineering, Telekom Innovation Laboratories at BGU, Prof. Nava Pliskin and Dr. Adir Even, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Prof. Yuval Shahar, Head, Medical Informatics Research Center, and Dr. Eitan Bachmat, Department of Computer Science.
The Cyber Security Council Germany was founded by renowned personalities in August 2012. The association located in Berlin is politically neutral, and consults to companies, authorities and political decision-makers in the field of cyber security.
The president of the elected board, comprised of four people, is Arne Schönbohm, an expert in cyber security and chief executive officer of the company BSS AG, while Hans-Wilhelm Dünn acts as vice president. Hans-Peter Kröger, president of the German Association of Fire Fighters, and Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Werner Weidenfeld, director of the Centre for Applied Political Research (CAP), long-standing consultant of various federal governments and the European Union as well as coordinator of the German-American relations for 10 years round out the board. The members of the association come from big and medium-sized enterprises, and are operators of critical infrastructural systems as well as experts and political decision-makers with regard to cyber security.
BGU is the Israeli academic leader in cyber security research boasting the first MSc in cyber security and longstanding research partnerships with multi-national corporations such as Deutsche Telekom. It is a founding member of the CyberSpark initiative, a unique endeavor to create a cyber security ecosystem featuring academia, multinational corporations, the IDF, and venture capital incubators housed at the new Advanced Technologies Park adjacent to the University.
Arne Schönbohm (right), President and Hans-Wilhelm Dünn (left), Vice President of the Cyber Security Council Germany with BGU VP and Dean for R&D Prof. Dan Blumberg (Center)
