The German state of Hesse is funding two cybersecurity projects to strengthen police communications and help investigators analyse large volumes of financial data.
Wiesbaden. Hesse’s State Secretary for the Interior, Isabelle Hemsley, presented funding awards for TETRApp and TrustFin at the state’s interior ministry. With the two latest grants, Hesse says it has supported 18 cybersecurity research projects with a total of €5.6 million since launching its funding programme in 2020. The programme is designed to make research findings publicly available.
Preparing police radio for the post-quantum era
Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences will receive €349,824 for TETRApp, a project aimed at making digital communications between police units and command centres more resilient. The team will develop a software prototype designed to work with Germany’s future digital radio infrastructure for public safety agencies. The project will examine how to meet post-quantum security requirements while reducing reliance on external technology.
Automating data analysis in financial investigations
Hesse is providing €499,999 for TrustFin, a joint project by TU Darmstadt and the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD). The partners will develop a prototype to automate the analysis of unstructured data, including PDFs, images and free-text entries in transaction records. The aim is to help investigators identify links across large datasets in cases involving economic and property crime, while keeping the findings traceable.
