Activities at FHNW
- Head of Competence Center Digital Trust
- Head of Competence Center Blockchain
- Programme Manager CAS IT Audit, Compliance and Cyber Security
- Lecturer in Business Information Technology at the competence centres Cyber Security & Resilience and Technology, Organization & People
Profile
Prof. Dr. Petra Maria Asprion has been working at the Institute for Information Systems since 2016 where she is committed to research, training and further education.
Petra Maria Asprion is a certified computer scientist, economist and business educationist. In 2008, she started her scientific career with a doctorate at the University of Berne on the topic of “Internal controls / Segregation of Duties in context of ERP systems” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. Gerhard Knolmayer.
Prior to her second scientific career, Petra Maria Asprion worked mainly for multinational corporations, most recently for one of the Big 4 in various line functions. Her activities included the design and implementation of network technologies and encryption as well as access management. She was head of various SAP competence centers and responsible for numerous international implementation projects. For more than 15 years, Petra Maria Asprion has been predominantly involved in the design, implementation and monitoring of IT Compliance, IT Risk Management and IT Governance (GRC) as well as the associated requirements in the context of IT Audit and IT Assurance. Since 2012, she has been successfully responsible for the "Academics Relationships" of the ISACA Chapter Switzerland.
In recent years, she has focused particularly on the topics of IT Security, Cyber Security and Cyber Resilience. Her current research topics are "Cyber Security Governance", "Digital Ser-vices - Security and Data Sovereignty", "Ethical Hacking – What works", “Cyber Security Programs – Acceptance and Awareness” as well as «Blockchain» and related «Smart Contracts».
Teaching and Consulting Activities
Teaching Activities
Current teaching assignments and topics
- Cyber Security & Cyber Resilience
- Compliance Management and Governance of IT
- Business Process Management
- Enterprise Resource Planning Systems/Enterprise Applications
- IT Audit and IT Assurance
- Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
In the following courses
- Master of Science in Business Information Systems
- Bachelor of Science in Business Information Technology
- CAS IT Audit, Compliance and Cyber Security
Research
Research focus
Security
- Cyber Security
- Cyber Resilience
- Digital Forensics
Blockchain
- Blockchain as a Security Technology
- Blockchain in (digital) Supply Chains
- Smart Contracts
Governance, Risk Management and Compliance
- Security of (digital) Value Chains
- IT Governance and IT Risk Management
- IT Compliance, Data Security, Data Protection
- IT Audit, IT Security Audit