Activities at FHNW
- Professor Cybersecurity & Digital Trust
- Head of CAS Data-Driven Security Manager
- Head of Seminar Neues Datenschutzrecht
- Head of Trinational Cybersecurity Days (www.tri-csd.ch)
- Head of Blockchain Bootcamp
Profile
Prof. Dr. Bettina Schneider has been working at the Institute for Information Systems since 2016 and is involved in research as well as education and training. Bettina Schneider holds a degree in business informatics and business education. She started her academic career in 2012 with a doctorate at the University of Koblenz-Landau on the topic of 'Business Information Systems as a Research Field of Economic Education'.
Prior to her academic career, Bettina Schneider worked for a multinational pharmaceutical company in various management positions and several countries (Switzerland, Germany, Australia). Her work included the end-to-end design and implementation of regional and global SAP projects, including aspects of master data, data protection and access management. She led various international project teams and was responsible for numerous analytics, reporting & data mining initiatives.
In recent years, Bettina Schneider has focused on the topics of IT security, data protection and blockchain. Current research topics are "Cybersecurity for SMEs", "Data Privacy and Privacy-by-Design", "Blockchain Education", and "Cybersecurity Gamification". Bettina Schneider is the initiator of the Trinational Cybersecurity Day and is co-coordinator of the H2020 EU project called GEIGER. Since 2017, she is a member of the SATW Expert Group Industry 4.0 and in 2021 she was part of the EU Blockchain Observatory Forum 2.0.
Teaching and Consulting Activities
Teaching activities in the following programmes:
- Master of Science in Business Information Systems
- Bachelor of Science in Business Information Systems
- Bachelor of Business Information Technology
- CAS Data-Driven Security Manager
- CAS Cybersecurity & Information Risk Management
- Seminar New Data Protection Law
Current teaching assignments and topics
- Cyber Security & Cyber Resilience, esp. cryptography
- Data Privacy & EU DSGVO / Swiss nDSG
- SAP Certified Application Associate
- Bloxxgame Blockchain Trainer
Research
- Cyber Security & Data Privacy
- Cybersecurity for SMEs incl. Community Building
- Cybersecurity Gamification esp. Escape Rooms and Storytelling
- EU DSGVO / Swiss nDSG esp. data protection impact assessment and data protection self-assessment - Blockchain
- Blockchain and data privacy
- Blockchain in Supply Chain and/or Health
- Blockchain Education, esp. Bloxxgame Simulation