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Innovation Day Mainfranken 2025 focuses on cyber security under the motto “Digital. Secure. Protected.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A single data leak can cost millions \u2013 or paralyze entire systems. The Innovation Day Mainfranken 2025 impressively demonstrated how serious the threat of cybercrime is. Under the motto “Digital. Secure. Protected. <\/p>\n

The Innovation Day was organized by the W\u00fcrzburg-Schweinfurt University of Applied Sciences (THWS), the Julius-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t W\u00fcrzburg (JMU), the W\u00fcrzburg-Schweinfurt Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) and Region Mainfranken GmbH. Representatives from science, business and administration discussed the topic on the Sanderheinrichsleitenweg campus. <\/p>\n

Cyberattacks as a real danger for Mainfranken’s SMEs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Caroline Trips, President of the W\u00fcrzburg-Schweinfurt Chamber of Industry and Commerce, emphasized:<\/p>\n

“Small and medium-sized enterprises in particular are at risk. Events such as the Innovation Day help to network knowledge and bundle regional expertise.”<\/p>\n

THWS President Prof. Dr. Jean Meyer referred to the THWS’s technology transfer centers (TTZ), in particular the TTZ-WUE in Ochsenfurt, which supports companies in matters of IT security.<\/p>\n

Together with the University of W\u00fcrzburg, Mainfranken is very well positioned in this field \u2013 not only in research, but also in transfer, as Prof. Dr. Matthias Bode, Vice President for Innovation, made clear.<\/p>\n

The live demo by Aleksander Paravac from the computer center of the Julius-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t W\u00fcrzburg demonstrated how easily one can penetrate foreign systems and what damage can be done unnoticed. With current hardware and software, it is more difficult for attackers, but investment in the operators is also of central importance. <\/p>\n

The human factor \u2013 the biggest gateway<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Innovation Day illustrated how a \u20ac13 million MRI machine can turn into a pile of scrap metal with a drastic example from practice: Ingo Jung from the University Hospital Frankfurt am Main explained how the hacker attack on the hospital took place and what measures the board and IT chose to keep the damage as low as possible. This also included the gradual opening of point-to-point encryption of the large medical devices, the temperature monitoring of which is now running via the cloud. <\/p>\n

The contribution of the company Madinger impressively showed that not only technology, but also people can become a weak point. At the medium-sized industrial company from the Schweinfurt district, a virus entered the system after employees opened the attachment of an email\u2026 <\/p>\n

Prof. Dr. Kristin Weber, Vice President for Digitalization at THWS, and Key Note Speaker Susann Bartels from The Strongest Link made it clear that the system must be viewed holistically and that resources must also be made available for this.<\/p>\n

Bettina Gardenne, Managing Director of Region Mainfranken GmbH, concluded by emphasizing the importance of regional exchange:<\/p>\n

“Cyber security is not a technical niche issue, but a shared responsibility. The key is to learn from each other \u2013 across all industries.”<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Innovation Day Mainfranken 2025 focused on cyber security and impressively showed: nobody is safe from a hacker attack. Digital security is therefore not a luxury, but a necessity for survival. Only through knowledge transfer, cooperation and awareness can it be prevented that high-tech innovations such as an MRI machine \u2013 in the worst case \u2013 become a pile of scrap metal. <\/p>\n

Organizer:<\/strong><\/p>\n

W\u00fcrzburg-Schweinfurt University of Applied Sciences (THWS) | Julius-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t W\u00fcrzburg (JMU) | W\u00fcrzburg-Schweinfurt Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) | Region Mainfranken GmbH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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PICTURE 1: Welcome Innovation Day 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

Image credit: Anne Speda, W\u00fcrzburg-Schweinfurt University of Applied Sciences<\/p>\n<\/div>

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