The constant further development and penetration of digitalisation in society are making cyberspace a key area for modern conflicts and wars. The likelihood of cyberspace attacks occurring in Switzerland is very high, yet it is hard to predict how much damage could be caused.

 The goal of the programme is to build up and secure technological expertise in order to identify, assess and reduce risks in cyberspace. Due to the very short technology cycles and the rapidly changing level of threat, the research focuses are guided agilely by the current trends and the needs of the Swiss Armed Forces at the Cyber Defence Campus. Concepts are being developed which recognise anomalies in data traffic in own networks and thus detect attacks which can be displayed on an operational picture of the cyber domain of operations. To protect own networks, competences will be built up to support operations for active defence against attacks or to deceive enemy players in cyberspace. Specific vulnerability analyses in critical infrastructures and mobile devices, cyber security in aerospace as well as post-quantum cryptography round off the portfolio.

Modern laboratory infrastructures are being used to examine research results in a realistic military environment. In addition to a cyber security lab for researching the security of software and hardware components in an isolated environment, domain-specific labs exist to examine the security of future vehicle, aircraft, satellite, internet and 5G communication.