Teams up with partner organizations to build "digital trust"

EPFL President Martin Vetterli has today unveiled plans to create the EPFL Center for Digital Trust. Eight institutional and industrial partners are already willing to join. This new research platform will aim to be a center of excellence for IT security and personal data protection in the digital era. "Digititalization is often compared to a huge wave surging across the earth. People need to know the basics if they want to ride that wave confidently and have trust in it," says Martin Vetterli, President of the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Vetterli intends to help anchor that trust, which is essential for an open, democratic society, economic prosperity, and personal freedom, and to that end has announced a new Center for Digital Trust based at EPFL. The statement was made during the 2017 Cybersecurity day , held at EPFL in the presence of Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin. Individual citizens and major multinationals alike must adapt to the changes being imposed by digitalization - whether that involves learning how to use new software or adapting to new working methods. Such technological progress is paving the way to Industry 4.0, a new paradigm where companies must rethink their entire business models. These challenges are at the top of the agenda for business leaders and policymakers alike; Switzerland alone counts over 80 recent parliamentary actions on the issue. Switzerland is in key position to catch the opportunities