Harald Wahl is program director of the bachelor degree program Transport and Environment, deputy program director of the master degree program Information Management and IT Security, and lecturer at the UAS Technikum Wien. After his graduation in Technical Mathematics he had been working as scientific assistant and as software developer at the University of Linz. In 2001, he started to work at the UAS Technikum Wien. His research and educational activities lie in Telematics, Web Engineering, Semantic Technologies, Database systems, Knowledge management, and eLearning.
Christian Kaufmann is deputy program director of the bachelor degree program Information and Communication Systems and Services and works at the UAS Technikum Wien at the Department of Information Engineering & Security as a lecturer for security courses. Before and after his graduation in Information and Communication Systems, Computer Science Management and Business Engineering and Computer Science he worked in the IT department of an Insurance company and started 2006 as a lecturer at the UAS Technikum Wien. His field of teaching and research includes technical security, penetration testing, information security and network engineering.
Computer Security is per se a very technical orientated area of expertise but due to the deep embedment into companies not only infrastructure but also into the companies processes Security can no longer be considered for itself. Students who major in Security still have to be excellent technicians but this is not enough to face today's Security tasks. In addition to their duties to secure the companies systems, they also have to rise Security awareness of all employees, continuously research new risk, audit the companies processes, manage their department, lead projects, do security tests of the systems and many more. Therefor their ability spectrum has to involve many interdisciplinary beside good technical skills.At the University of Applied Science Technikum Wien, especially in the master degree program "Information Management & IT Security" but also in other course programs these interdisciplinary skills are an integrated part of the courses. In the Keynote we present our approach of teaching Security in higher education.