Steffen Wendzel: About me

I lead the smart building security group at Fraunhofer FKIE, Bonn where I also focus on network steganography/covert channels. I started writing computer related books and articles when I was 17 and received my PhD in computer science from the University of Hagen in 2013.

Mail: steffen (at) wendzel (dot) de

Education

2009-2013: Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in CS from University of Hagen (chair of parallel comp. and VLSI)
2009-2011: M.Sc. in CS from Augsburg University of Applied Sciences
2005-2009: Dipl.-Inf.(FH), Kempten University of Applied Sciences

Working Experience

since 2013: Team leader (IT Security for Building Automation Systems) at the Cyber Defense Group of Fraunhofer FKIE, Bonn, Germany
since 2003: Author of CS books and articles
2012-2013: Research assistant at the HSASec group, Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
2010-2013: Research assistant for the IT4SE (IT for Smart renewable Energy generation and use) project, Augsburg University of Applied Sciences and visiting researcher at the University of Waikato

Research Interests

network covert channels and network steganography,
building automation / smart city security
IT security and security engineering,
administration and programming of Linux/Unix/BSD systems,
open source project management
In addition to computer science I am interested in psychology, university history and campus novels.

Academic Activities (Reviews, Research Abroad/Int'l. Cooperations; Awards, ...)

2014:

Program Committee Member at International Workshop on Cyber Crime (IWCC 2014) at IEEE S&P, San Jose, 2014.
Program Committee Member at GI Sicherheit 2014, Vienna.
Technical Program Committee Member at 9th International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP'14), Paris, 2014.
Invited Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Sydney, 2014.
Technical Program Committee Member at 3rd Techniques and Applications for Mobile Commerce (TAMoCo'14), Warsaw, September, 2014.

2013:

Coordinating AoI (Area of Interest) group on "Trustworthy and Resilient Infrastructure and Services" of the NIS Public-Private Platform Working Group 3 on Secure ICT research and innovation announced in the Cybersecurity Strategy of the European Union (since September).
Participating and contributing to the Arbeitskreis kritische Informations- und Kommunikationsinfrastrukturen (AK KRITIS) of the German Informatics Society (GI) SIG Management für Informationssicherheit, SECMGT (from October)
Visiting colleagues at the Warsaw University of Technology to discuss current and future joint-work (Oct 2013)
Reviewer for WILEY-IEEE: Scientific book proposal review
Reviewer for IEEE Spectrum magazine (Spectrum)
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
Reviewer for Springer Annals of Telecommunications - Annales des Télécommunications (ANTE)
Technical Program Committee Member at 3rd International Workshop on Information Security, Theory and Practice (ISTP 2013), London, UK, 2013.
Technical Program Committee Member at 8th Int. Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP 2013), Rome, Italy, 2013.
Co-Organizer of SPRING 8 of the GI SIG SIDAR at the Munich University of Applied Sciences

2012:

12/2011-01/2012: guest researcher at the University of Waikato, NZ for the 2nd time for six weeks via project IT4SE
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions in Information Forensics and Communication Security (TIFS)
Best Paper Award at the The Seventh International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP 2012), Stuttgart, 2012.
Co-Organizer of the 5th and 6th IT4SE workshop at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences

2011:

Reviewer for Journal of Universal Computer Science (JUCS)
12/2010-01/2011: guest researcher at the University of Waikato, NZ for six weeks via project IT4SE
Co-Organizer of the 3rd IT4SE workshop at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences
Galileo Press book review: Arnold Willemer: Linux-Server einrichten und administrieren mit Debian 6 GNU/Linux, Galileo Press, 2011.

2010 and older:

Co-Organizer of the 1st IT4SE workshop at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, 2010.
Galileo Press book review: Dirk Becker: OpenVPN. Das Praxisbuch, Galileo Press, 2008.
Galileo Press book review: Thomas Theis: Einstieg in PHP5, Galileo Press, 2006.
Galileo Press book review: Sascha Kersken: Handbuch für Fachinformatiker, Galileo Press GmbH, 2005 (checked the IT security chapter).

Memberships:

German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik)
IEEE
Gesellschaft der Freunde der FernUniversität e.V.

Trainings/Courses

Communications Seminar,
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Leipzig, November 2013.
Acquisition Techniques,
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Cologne, September 2013.
BACnet Training Certificate,
MBS GmbH, Augsburg, January 2013.
Basics of BACnet Certificate,
MBS GmbH, Augsburg, July 2012.
Leadership Coaching,
Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, Bavarian Forest, 2011.
Workshop Moderation,
Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, Augsburg, 2011.
Rhetoric Course,
Kempten University of Applied Sciences, Kempten, 2008.
Communication and Personality Psychology,
Kempten University of Applied Sciences, Kempten, 2008.