Information security

Internal training

Individual training in the workplace!

Would you like to use your time efficiently and continue your training on current topics in the world of work flexibly and from any location? Then the GoodHabitz online training platform offers you the best opportunity to enrich your knowledge.

This offer includes free access to all GoodHabitz online training courses for all employees at RPTU. After successfully completing your course, you can prove that you have increased your knowledge with certificates of participation or certificates.

You can find a PDF file with further information here: https://seafile.rlp.net/f/e919ab9fd0ac48f49615/

You can access the offer directly here (log in with your RHRK account): https://my.goodhabitz.com/sso/uni-kl
Enter "information security" in the search field in GoodHabitz
and start your personal online course.

RPTU Government IT security training

Announcement

At the beginning of October 2025, the OpenOlat course "RPTU Government IT Security Training" (BITS) was translated into English.

Description

This course, designed by Behörden-IT-Sicherheitstraining - BITS for short - is aimed at employees and staff as well as members of the RPTU and all other interested parties.

The course is not only intended to impart knowledge, but also to encourage people to think about their own habits, perhaps even to change them, to actively engage with the topics and to implement the recommended measures.

Learning objectives

The course is divided into 10 lessons of different lengths. The breakdown is as follows and can be found on the left:

  1. Lesson E-Mails
  2. Lesson Viruses
  3. Lesson Passwords
  4. Lesson Surfing the Internet
  5. Confidential data lesson
  6. Lesson Social Media
  7. Lesson Cloud
  8. Lesson Mobile devices
  9. Lesson My workplace
  10. Lesson AI - Artificial intelligence

In principle, the chapters are more or less coordinated with each other, but you can also read and work through them in your own order and thus topic-related.

Prerequisites

There are no specific prerequisites that must be fulfilled in order to attend the course.

Certificate

There are usually a few test questions at the end of each chapter for self-assessment. These self-tests are not graded.

However, there is a final test at the end of the entire course at the latest, which must be passed with over 80% in order to receive an OLAT certificate.

Links to

https://olat.vcrp.de/url/RepositoryEntry/4816273580
https://olat.vcrp.de/auth/RepositoryEntry/4998725907 - English Version

External Event Recommendation:
12th IT-SAD November 2–13, 2026

Hello,

The IT Security Awareness Days are taking place again this semester, and I’d like to cordially invite you to attend.

As always, the presentations will be held online, and registration is not required. This semester’s event will take place from Nov. 2–13, 2026.

Once again, we’re offering a wide range of interesting presentations on IT security by speakers from all over Germany. Please visit our website for details: https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/ciso/it-sad/

Please feel free to share this invitation!

— English version ---

Hello,

The IT Security Awareness Days are taking place again this semester, and I would like to invite you to attend.

As always, the lectures will take place online; registration is not required.
The event will run from November 2 to November 13, 2026.

Once again, we’re offering a variety of interesting lectures on IT security featuring speakers from all over Germany.
Please find the details on our website: https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/ciso/it-sad/

Please spread the word about this invitation!

Sincerely,
Dr. Christian Böttger

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Chief Information Security Officer / Information Security Officer

Technical University of Braunschweig
CISO Office / Designated Office CISO
Bültenweg 73
38106 Braunschweig
phone: +49 531 391 55631
mobile: +49 171 5394099
Email: c.boettger[at]tu-braunschweig.de
Web: https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/ciso

Digital Privacy: How Do I Protect My Personal Data Online?

We Germans spend an average of 4.4 hours a day surfing the Internet. But who knows what sensitive data is being collected about us during that time? And since, as we all know, the Internet never forgets, what happens to our most private information once we’ve entrusted it to a computer or the Internet?

The Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) is an independent school of digital engineering at the University of Potsdam in Germany. The HPI is known for its outstanding achievements in the field of digital engineering and offers a combination of research, teaching, and facilities with a tuition-free degree program. On the Open HPI Platform, there’s a crash course on how to best protect your personal data.

This short course helps you take control of your personally identifiable information. Through a series of interactive exercises, step into the shoes of your adversaries and learn how criminals exploit devastating flaws in the protection of private data. Learn to understand the risks associated with compromising your privacy, as well as effective strategies for securing your most personal data online.

For more information, visit https://open.hpi.de/courses/privatsphaere2024.

OpenHPI Online Course "Crime Scene: The Internet—2022 Edition"

Have you taken openHPI courses on cybersecurity in the past? If so, we’d like to invite you to the course "Crime Scene: The Internet—2022 Edition", which begins on October 26, 2022.

Rising rates of cybercrime are a result of the current global crises. (Information) warfare and attacks do not stop at the digital realm. Anyone who owns a smartphone or a computer can become the target of random attacks. Compromised passwords, dangerous malware, spam emails—all of these are current manifestations of cybercrime.

With the free“Tatort Internet” course in its 2022 edition, we have expanded and updated our successful 2020 course. Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel and his team present the fundamentals of cybersecurity .

The course lasts 6 weeks, and participation is free. Upon completion of the course, you will receive a certificate of completion or, optionally, a certificate of achievement. Enroll in the course now!

To enroll: https://open.hpi.de/courses/intsec2022