We would like to inform you on the ISACA Austria Chapter & ISC2 Austria Chapter Conference 2025 on “Cyber Resilience and Artificial Intelligence.” The conference program will provide updates on innovations and developments in the areas of cyber resilience, artificial intelligence, compliance, and governance, while outlining potential impacts on companies and individuals. These topics affect nearly everyone, and the exchange of experiences offers significant value.
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Our colleague Stefan Jakoubi, Director of Professional Services, and Jimmy Heschl, Head of Digital Security at Red Bull, are moderating the conference.
SBA-Talk
9.45 AM: Cybersecurity and LLMs: How Language Models Are Transforming the Security Landscape
The rapid advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly revolutionizing various fields and gaining importance in cybersecurity. This talk provides an overview of the potential of LLMs for security-related tasks based on the current state of research. The focus spans both defensive applications, such as secure software development and penetration testing, as well as offensive scenarios, including disinformation, social engineering, and malware. Additionally, we will highlight the risks and challenges associated with the use of LLMs in cybersecurity and discuss potential strategies for risk mitigation and safeguarding.
Andreas Ekelhart
Andreas focuses on advancing security in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), leveraging Digital Twins for Security, and exploring Security and Privacy in Machine Learning. His research also includes the generation and use of Synthetic Data and semantic applications for information security risk assessment.
He holds master’s degrees in Business Informatics and Software Engineering & Internet Computing, both earned with distinction from TU Wien. Recognized for his innovative master’s thesis on semi-structured data for the semantic desktop, Andreas received the City of Vienna’s diploma prize. In 2011, he completed his PhD at TU Wien, formalizing information security knowledge through ontologies.
Andreas has held research roles at TU Wien, the University of Vienna, and the Vienna University of Economics and Business, contributing to projects on industrial security and semantic log analysis. Currently, he serves as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Vienna. A certified expert, he is a member of ISC2 and holds CISSP, CSSLP, CEH, MCPD, MCSD, and ISTQB CTFL certifications.
Sebastian Schrittwieser
Sebastian Schrittwieser’s research focuses on software protection, particularly on developing quantitative prediction models to estimate the effectiveness of code obfuscation, and threat modeling, emphasizing the inference of cyber defense strategies through reinforced approaches.
He is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Security and Privacy group at the University of Vienna. In 2014, he earned his Ph.D. in technical sciences with a focus on information security from the Vienna University of Technology. From 2015 to 2020, Sebastian led the JR-Center for Unified Threat Intelligence on Targeted Attacks and, from 2018 to 2020, served as the head of the Institute of IT Security Research at St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences.
Sebastian has published in top-tier venues such as NDSS, USENIX Security, ACSAC, and ACM Computing Surveys and has served as Program Committee Chair for conferences and workshops, including ARES. He is also the Co-Founder of Kibosec, a company addressing the human aspects of information security.