A-SIT was founded in 1999 as a registered nonprofit association and is established as a competence center for IT-Security.

Members (public institutions)

• The Federation, represented by Federal Chancellery of Austria (BKA)
• Graz University of Technology (TU Graz)
• Federal Computing Centre (BRZ), member since 2012
• Danube University Krems (DUK), member since 2018
• Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), member since 2021

Former members of A-SIT were the Central bank of the Republic of Austria (OeNB), from 1999 to 2019, and the Styrian Business Promotion Agency (SFG), from mid 2003 to late 2005.

Principles

• strict neutrality
• free of instructions
• economically independent