CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub

15/09/2026

04/09/2026

27/08/2026

🔐 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 – 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁.

On 11 September, join the CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub community at TalTech - Tallinna Tehnikaülikool for the hands-on workshop "From Risk to Evidence: Cybersecurity Management & Forensic Readiness".

Designed for managers and professionals with a basic technical background, the session will connect two essential perspectives: cybersecurity risk management and forensic readiness.

Participants will explore how to:
⚔️ Identify and communicate cybersecurity risks more effectively,
⚔️ Understand what forensic readiness means in practice,
⚔️ Map the evidence available across organisational systems,
⚔️ Assess how prepared an organisation is to respond when an incident occurs.

The workshop will combine expert input with hands-on group exercises based on realistic scenarios, led by Raimundas Matulevicius and Lukáš Daubner from the TÜ arvutiteaduse instituut, University of Tartu.

📅 11 September 2026 | 09:00–11:00
📍 TalTech Mektory, Tallinn | Room MEK-114 (ScreenX Hall)
🌍 In English

⚠️ Places are limited. Register by 4 September:
https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=hoFqdrZlWkqAVS5LUEeOx25JjGDrhhVJmB02tQqGu45UQUpLRzVQNzlWUjYzWEs1RlNMNUFXMjhHOC4u&route=shorturl

More information:
https://chess-eu.cs.ut.ee/event/from-risk-to-evidence-cybersecurity-management-and-forensic-readiness-2/

27/08/2026

The 6th Workshop on Security and Privacy in Intelligent Infrastructures (SP2I 2026) held on August 24, 2026, in Linköping, Sweden, is organised in conjunction with the 2026 conference.

SP2I 2026 aimed to showcase ongoing research in privacy and for . The program featured six engaging presentations, including an invited talk by Simon Hacks (Stockholm University). Serving as a vibrant forum for academic discussion, the workshop successfully attracted around 30 participants.

Check the SP2I 2026 proceedings at:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-37218-5

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Workshops chairs:
😀 Lukas Malina (Brno University of Technology, the Czech Republic)
😎 Raimundas Matulevicius (TÜ arvutiteaduse instituut, Estonia)
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25/08/2026

This year, the CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub-organised Workshop on Education, Training and Awareness in Cybersecurity (ETACS‘26) took place in Linköping, Sweden, on August 24, together with the Conference. The CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub presence was significant – the workshop was opened by Jan Hajny (Brno University of Technology, CA5 Co-Lead), followed by the invited talk by Raimundas Matulevicius (University of Tartu, CA1 Lead) and chaired by Lisa Moravek (Brno University of Technology). In addition to cybersecurity education and training topics, project activities in post-quantum technologies and blockchain were discussed.

Workshop proceedings are available https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-37218-5

11/08/2026

Organisational Digital Identity (ODI) commonly relies on keys controlled by a single entity, creating a single point of failure and preventing organisations from cryptographically enforcing custom access policies. Migrating to fully decentralised identity infrastructures is costly and time-consuming...

02/07/2026

The CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub journal's first presentations were held on the 29th of June 2026. It was a special session at the Baltic DB&IS 2026 conference (https://dbis2026.cs.ut.ee/), with attendees from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, France, Sweden, the Czech Republic and other countries.

The partners presented the CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub research results published in the scientific journals. It included:

📌 Bakhtina, M., Matulevičius, R., & Malina, L. (2024). Information Security and Privacy Management in Intelligent Transportation Systems. Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly, 38, 100-131. https://doi.org/10.7250/csimq.2024-38.04

📌 Affia-Jomants A. -A. O., Matulevičius R., Pabat N., and Malina L., On Security Risk Management for Teleoperated Driving Systems, IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 151153-151169, 2025, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3602202.

📌 Antipenko, V., Matulevičius, R. Function-driven cyber-physical security in smart manufacturing. Softw Syst Model (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10270-026-01370-0

📌 Malina L, Dzurenda P, Tran M, Dobias P, Daubner L, Matulevičius R, Ekeh IF. 2026. Towards secure and privacy-preserving car-sharing systems based on group signatures. PeerJ Computer Science 12:e3865 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.3865

📌 Seeba, M., Oja, T., Mäses, S., Murumaa, M. P., & Matulevičius, R. (2025). Toward NIS2 Compliance for Multiple Stakeholders with Security Level Evaluation Framework. Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly, 45, 136-159. https://doi.org/10.7250/csimq.2025-45.07

📌 Janovsky A., Chmielewski Ł., Svenda P., Jancar J., Matyas V., Revisiting the analysis of references among Common Criteria certified products, Computers & Security, Volume 152, 2025, 104362, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2025.104362

📌 Chodil M. and Kučera A. 2026. The Finite Satisfiability Problem for PCTL is Undecidable. J. ACM 73, 1, Article 2 (February 2026), 30 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3787496

📌 Mubashar Iqbal M., Suhail S., Matulevičius R., Shah F. A., Malik S. U. R., McLaughlin K., IoV-TwinChain: Predictive maintenance of vehicles in internet of vehicles through digital twin and blockchain, Internet of Things, Volume 30, 2025, 101514, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iot.2025.101514

📌 Galanska K., Kruzikova A., Murumaa M. P., Matyáš V. and Just M., From Reports to Actions: Bridging the Customer Usability Gap in Pe*******on Testing, in IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 73975-73986, 2025, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3561220

The journal's first session was followed by the Business Process Round Table (https://dbis2026.cs.ut.ee/Main/Business), where the participants discussed achieving the Forensic-Ready Information Security through Business Processes.

30/05/2026

📸As part of the state visit of the President of the Czech Republic, members of the UT Institute of Computer Science had the honour of attending a reception at the University of Tartu Museum.

30/05/2026

🇨🇿🤝🇪🇪 As part of the Czech President’s state visit to Estonia, a business delegation meeting took place at the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science. We exchanged ideas for the research and collaboration. Special attention was given to ongoing research projects such as CHESS Cyber-Security Excellence Hub (coordinated by Masaryk University), Secure-NET: Enhancing Cross-Sectoral Collaboration in Cybersecurity (coordinated by the University of Tartu), (coordinated by Masaryk University), and (coordinated by Brno University of Technology).

🇨🇿🤝🇪🇪 The activities carried out within these projects contribute to strengthening digital resilience and advancing key areas of cybersecurity, while also having a broader geopolitical dimension. Both the Czech Republic and Estonia are countries that, due to their strategic positions and membership in the EU and NATO, face increased pressure from cybersecurity threats. These joint initiatives therefore focus not only on technological development but also on protecting critical infrastructure, ensuring data security, and fostering Europe's long-term resilience.