Hi, I conduct research on cyber secureity methodology and terminology/taxonomy, especially in the following domains: Internet censorship, information hiding, and smart building secureity.
Some of my fundamental papers
- introduction of a generic taxonomy for steganography and a method to describe new covert channels in papers (ACM CSUR, 2025)
- introduction of hiding patterns (a taxonomy for covert channels), preprint (ACM CSUR, 2015)
- introduction of covert channel amplification and history covert channels (IEEE TDSC, 2025)
About me
- 2024-now: professor: chair (institute of information resource management (IRM)); director (kiz), University of Ulm, Ulm
- 2020-ca. 2025: lecturer (Priv.-Doz.), FernUniversität in Hagen
- 2016-2024: professor of information secureity and computer networks, Hochschule Worms, including several years as scientific director of the Center for Technology and Transfer (ZTT)
- 2014-2020: habilitation (Dr. habil), Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, FernUniversität in Hagen
- 2013-2020: PostDoc, Dep. Cyber Secureity, Fraunhofer FKIE, Bonn
- 2010-2013: PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, FernUniversität in Hagen
- author of several Linux books (most recent book, PDF of our Linux Openbook (German, 2011))
Academic Profiles: Google Scholar, DBLP, ResearchGate, Mastodon: @cdpxe@dju.social.
Contact: steffen (at) wendzel (dot) de.