Haya Schulmann speaks at Frontiers in Science-Lecture

The Internet underpins communication, commerce, science, and more, but its evolutionary design creates vulnerabilities. One critical example is the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which has controlled data routing since the 1980s but was not designed with security in mind.

In the 2010s, the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) was introduced to secure routing information, yet adoption remains limited. In her Frontiers in Science Lecture, the internationally renowned cybersecurity expert Haya Schulmann (Frankfurt a. M.) will provide an overview of the current state of RPKI deployment, discuss challenges, and present a novel, resilient RPKI architecture. She will conclude with forward-looking steps to secure the Internet infrastructure from both scientific and political perspectives.

Haya Schulmann is a Professor of Cybersecurity at the Department of Computer Science at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt. She is a member of the executive board of the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, where she coordinates the research area "Analytics-Based Cybersecurity." Additionally, she serves as a guest professor at Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Schulmann is among Germany’s most renowned and accomplished cybersecurity researchers. In 2022, she was awarded a LOEWE Top Professorship, in 2021 the German IT Security Prize by the Horst Görtz Foundation, and in 2015 the Applied Networking Research Prize by IETF/IRTF. To make cybersecurity accessible to a broader audience, she regularly writes articles and columns for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) and Tagesspiegel Background Cybersecurity.