Uni’s prepare with millions against hackers

This was announced by the science minister Eva-Maria Holzleitner (Spö). The reason is the increase in different cyber attacks. “Of course they don’t stop at the doors of the lecture hall.”

In recent years, Hacker -attacks have mainly achieved the headlines in the Unis Innsbruck and Salzburg. Due to the high number of non -reported cases, this should only be the tip of the iceberg. It is not just about skimming research results and classical science spy, said Holzleitner. “Uni’s are extremely attractive for hacking attacks because there are so much data and every semester new ones are added.” Security measures are extremely complex – a student must finally have access to courses at their home university at their home universities of their home university.

For the Cyber Resilience Plan, all 22 public universities have merged and considered various measures from training and awareness programs to stress tests and fake hack attacks to the development or selection of software. A university has taken over a management task for each area and would collaborate with the other universities. With good experiences, Holzleitner also wants to transfer the measures to other universities.

Debate about access restrictions
With the access restrictions at the universities, which are repeatedly rejected by the Spö, Holzleitner gives himself realistic. “I am not assuming that we will completely abolish access restrictions as part of this coalition.” The measure usually proceeds by law at the end of 2027 and the government has written an evaluation in the program. “We will see which types of access restrictions have proven themselves, which work well and which work less well.”

Under no circumstances may the access stores social select and be designed that you can only prepare for it with expensive boot camps. In the medical registration tests, Minister of Health Korinna Schumann and State Secretary Ulrike Königsberger-Ludwig (both Spö) had brought all the credit of professional previous experience into play. “I think that’s a practical proposal,” said Holzleitner. Open university entrance also means to give children of non-academic families the right information that are called up and which financial support options are available.

“No second -class doctorate”
Not much hope for the universities of Applied Sciences (FH) or universities for Applied Sciences (HAW) for an independent doctorate. The current model, according to which FH can offer doctorate programs in collaboration with universities, must be institutionalized. “So you can offer the FH/HAW to ensure that a doctorate is possible.” Both parties can benefit from this. It rejected her own title, such as a “doctor’s professional”, analogue to the bachelor or Master Professional: “I don’t want a second -class doctorate”.

The university strategy planned in the government program must be created in the coming year and then implemented with the 2040 perspective. In addition to the cooperation of individual universities, topics such as career paths for researchers must also be dealt with. The principle in the government program that no new federal university should be set up until the strategy will be established even wants to expand. “This also applies to the entire legislative period – if only for budgetary reasons.” She will fight hard for every euro for the university sector: “But we have to invest in our good facilities, so nothing is needed.”

On the other hand, there will be no subject in the university strategy, the teacher training, whose responsibility is shared by Holzleitner with Minister of Education Christoph Return (Neos). She does not want to anticipate the conversations on this subject. Currently, teachers for the age group for the six to ten years (primary school) and the educators for vocational education in vocational education in secondary and higher schools (BMHS) or for professional schools are only trained at educational universities (PH) – these are subordinate departments of the Ministry of Education. On the other hand, the training for teachers of the “Secondary Education of General Education” (AHS and General Education Topics on BMHS) are shared in such called associations.