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6. September 2022 | Startup News

Cube 5 seeks startups for cybersecurity incubator inCUBE Batch #2

The Cube 5 team from Bochum is sending its Next Gen Startup Incubator inCUBE into the next round. Early-stage cybersecurity startups can apply for Batch #2 until 30 September and benefit from customised coaching and networking content.

With inCUBE, Cube 5 has developed an innovative Next Gen incubator for the difficult first steps in the start-up process, which is completely tailored to the needs of early-stage start-ups in the areas of cybersecurity and IT security. The offer for ambitious founders focuses on sustainability and provides intensive five-month support for a maximum of five teams with customised further training and operational assistance. The participating teams can benefit from the connection to a strong regional to supra-regional start-up ecosystem with partners from science and business.

Batch #1, which started in May, is currently underway. Participants receive support from experienced experts on relevant topics such as business model development, company formation, sales, online and personnel marketing. In addition, they can access more than 200 software programmes for free or at significantly reduced rates and are considered for the provision of free office space in Bochum.

The inCUBE funding programme takes place twice a year, with new batches starting in the summer and winter semesters. Teams of two or more people from all over Germany can apply. There are no costs for the participants. Nor do they have to give up any shares in the young companies. The application deadline for the second batch is 30 September 2022.

More information and details about the application process

nachgehackt news

1. August 2022 | An der RUB

Podcast “Nachgehackt” is on the air

Our lives are becoming increasingly digital – and the topic of IT security is thus becoming more and more important. The new format “Nachgehackt – der Podcast zu IT-Security”, produced at the Ruhr University Bochum, wants to sensitize, inform and give tips for digital practice. The first episode is now available.

IT security concerns everyone. But for many people, the topic still seems daunting. Often they say: it’s all too complex, too complicated, too incomprehensible. The “Nachgehackt” format wants to change that. In the podcast, topics and areas related to IT security are presented in an easily accessible and entertaining way. The host Henrik Hanses interviews experts and other exciting guests and explores the world of IT security together with the listeners. In the process, the “self-confessed IT layman” sometimes asks questions if he doesn’t understand something. Since July 26, “Nachgehackt” is now on the air, every 14 days there is a new episode. To kick things off, Henrik Hanses talks to Prof. Dr. Christof Paar of the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy in Bochum about how cryptography determines our everyday lives and how important privacy is in the digital world.
 
More episodes of the first season:
  • Episode 2: “Internet of Things-Security” with Dr. Heiko Koepke and Dr. Christian Zenger (both CEO & founder of PHYSEC GmbH)
  • Episode 3: “Cyberwar” with Dr.-Ing. Christian Mainka (Horst Goertz Institute for IT Security) and Prof. Dr. Constantin Goschler (Faculty of historical Sciences, RUB)
  • Episode 4: “Hacking in Hollywood” with Dr. des. Mary Shnayien (Institute of Media Studies, RUB)
  • Episode 5: “IT Security & Startups” with Friederike Schneider (Cube 5) and Matteo Große-Kampmann (Managing Director & Founder AWARE7 GmbH)
Through the format leads the TV and radio host Henrik Hanses. . The podcast is presented by Cube 5 – Creating Security, the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security at Ruhr University Bochum, PHYSEC GmbH, Bochum Economic Development and eurobits e. V.
 
“Nachgehackt” is available at Spotify, Apple Podcast and wherever podcasts are available.
 
As a video podcast, “Nachgehackt” can be seen at Youtube.

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7. March 2022 | An der RUB, on one's own account

Alumni Angel Meetup 2022

Cube 5 and the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security invite all HGI alumni, students and young founders* to the Alumni Angel Meetup 2022 on May 3.

The event will take place within the ITS Connect and the Eurobits Security Summit as a hybrid event (live at the event center of the Ruhr-University Bochum and online).

In addition to presentations, a one-hour digital SpeedDating event offers all participants the opportunity to meet again, get to know each other and network. Here, memories, experiences or expertise can be exchanged in a digital format, business models presented and investors and advisors for startup companies can be won.

 

Process:

3 pm

Greeting (Hybrid)

PROF. DR.-ING. CHRISTOF PAAR

Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy / Cube 5

 

15:15

Starting point Bochum (Hybrid)

DR. AXEL POSCHMANN

xen1thLabs / RUB-Alumni

 

15:45

How Research Becomes Innovation (Hybrid)

PROF. DR. GHASSAN KARAME

Faculty of Computer Science RUB

 

16:15 – 17:15 (Digital)

SpeedDating

 

from 17:15 (live)

Finally at Bermuda3Eck

 

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Campus RUB

14. October 2021 | on one's own account

Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security moves into building MC

With the reestablishment of the Faculty of Computer Science, the CCS and HGI offices, the May, Kiltz, Leander, Acosta, Zeume, Bondorf, Berger, and Hönig groups moved into the MC building on the Ruhr University Bochum campus.

The startup incubator Cube 5 is located on the first floor of the building along with the HGI office, the Cluster of Excellence CASA, the research college SecHuman and the student council . The Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy is also located in the upper part of the building.

Our visiting address:
Cube 5
Horst-Görtz-Institut für IT-Sicherheit | Ruhr-Universität Bochum
MC EG 69-73, Postfach MA 52
Universitätsstr. 140
D-44799 Bochum

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The marking shows the new location on the RUB campus, right next to the TZR technology center Ruhr.
Projektleiter Cube 5

15. April 2021 | An der RUB, on one's own account

Cube 5 funding continues

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research is funding the incubator from the IT security Cube 5 at Ruhr University Bochum with 1.5 million euros for another three years.

Bochum has been a good location for IT security (ITS) for years. This is currently demonstrated once again by the funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), which is once again supporting the ITS incubator Cube 5 at RUB with 1.5 million euros over three years starting in 2021.  “It is a great pleasure that we were so convincing with the work and offerings of Cube 5 and now receive further funding. We are very pleased about that. It gives us the opportunity to firmly anchor Cube 5 in Bochum as an IT security location and to continue to produce promising technology-driven startups from academia,” says Prof. Dr. Christof Paar, Cube 5 project manager and director at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy.

Cube 5 already received its first funding from the BMBF in the context of the research framework program “Self-determined and secure in the digital world 2015-2020”. In addition to Bochum, this funding supported three other incubators in Darmstadt, Saarbrücken and Karlsruhe. The four incubators started on December 1, 2017 under the “StartUpSecure” initiative and have since become the first incubators from IT security nationwide.

IT security in Bochum

The topic of IT security is being established and expanded at the Bochum site. The ecosystem consists of a local and supraregional network of science and business. This includes Europe’s largest degree programs in ITS with around 1,000 students, an active startup scene, and the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, which relocated to Bochum in 2019. As an incubator, Cube 5 supports researchers and students interested in founding companies who want to get technology-intensive ideas off the ground in the field of IT security.

Targets

Cube 5 provides concrete support in the form of start-up expertise and technology development right through to the establishment of the company. Targeted support services include, for example, consultation hours, seminars, pitches and assistance with applications for the StartUpSecure funding program. With this funding, the BMBF provides financial support to start-up projects in the product development phase or during the establishment of the company.

Future

With the help of these Cube 5 support services, research is transferred into practice. These services are to be intensified and expanded with the funding. In addition, the second funding phase will be used to establish and consolidate Cube 5 as a permanent incubator beyond 2024.

More information (in german)
Informationen zur StartUpSecure

Contact 

Martina Rinkens Cube 5 – Creating Security Horst-Görtz-Institut für IT-Sicherheit / Ruhr-Universität Bochum +49 (0) 234 32-29822 martina.rinkens (at) rub.de

 

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