Institute of Information Resource Management

Steffen Wendzel is the Chair of the Institute of Information Resource Management (IRM / OMI) and Director of the kiz (university library and computing center). He received his habilitation (2020) and PhD (Dr. rer. nat., 2013) from the University of Hagen, Germany. Earlier, he was a lecturer (Privatdoz.) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Hagen, Germany, a professor and director of the Center for Technology and Transfer (ZTT) at Hochschule Worms, and PostDoc at the Dep. Cyber Security, Fraunhofer FKIE, Bonn.

Current Roles:

  • since 2024: Chair of the Institute of Information Resource Management (OMI)
  • since 2024: Director of the Library and Computing Center (kiz), Ulm University
  • since 2026: Scientific Spokesperson of BelWü
  • since 2024: Member: Working Group of the Scientific Computing Center Directors Baden-Württemberg (ALWR)
  • since 2024: Member: Working Group of the Library Directors Baden-Württemberg (AG BibDir)
  • since 2025: Project lead: State-level High-performance Computing Project bwHPC-S5 (jointly with Prof. M. Frank, KIT)
  • since 2025: Member: consultative group for bwInfoSec
  • since 2024: Member: Senatsausschuss Lehre, Universität Ulm
  • since 2024: Member: Lenkungsausschuss des Projekts Campusportal zur Einführung von HISinOne, Ulm University
  • since 2025: DFN Representative for Ulm University
  • since 2025: ZKI Representative for Ulm University

More information: https://www.wendzel.de/

Publications

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Keller J, Wendzel S. Reversible and Plausibly Deniable Covert Channels in One-Time Passwords Based on Hash Chains. Applied Sciences. 2021; 11(2)1      [DOI]      [File] 
113.
Wendzel S. IT-Sicherheit für TCP/IP- und IoT-Netzwerke: Grundlagen, Konzepte, Protokolle, Härtung . 2 ed. Springer; 2021      [DOI]      [File] 
112.
Wendzel S, Plötner J. Linux. Der Grundkurs . 1 ed. Rheinwerk Verlag; 2021     [File] 
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Wendzel S, Caviglione L, Checco A, Mileva A, Lalande J, Mazurczyk W. Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Information Security Methodology and Replication Studies (IWSMR 2021). ACM; 2021
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Wendzel S, Caviglione L, Mazurczyk W, Mileva A, Dittmann J, Krätzer C, Lamshöft K, Vielhauer C, Hartmann L, Keller J, Neubert T. A Revised Taxonomy of Steganography Embedding Patterns. In: Proc. 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2021). ACM; 2021      [DOI]      [File] 
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Chourib M, Wendzel S, Mazurczyk W. Adaptive Warden Strategy for Countering Network Covert Storage Channels. In: 46th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2021). IEEE; 2021 p. 148—153.     [File] 
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Vrhovec S, Caviglione L, Wendzel S. Crème de la Crème: Lessons from Papers in Top Publications. In: Proc. 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2021). ACM; 2021      [DOI]      [File] 
107.
Hartmann L, Wendzel S. Detection of Anomalous Values within TIA Project Data History for Industrial Control Systems. In: Proc. European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference (EICC 2021). ACM; 2021      [DOI]      [File] 
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Hartmann L, Wendzel S. How Feasible are Steganographic and Stealth Attacks on TIA Project Meta-data of ICS: A Case Study with Real-world Data. In: Proc. European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference (EICC 2021). ACM; 2021      [DOI]      [File] 
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Schmidbauer T, Wendzel S. Hunting Shadows: Towards Packet Runtime-based Detection Of Computational Intensive Reversible Covert Channels. In: Proc. 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2021). ACM; 2021      [DOI]      [File] 

Open Theses and Projects

8.
(AI-based) Intrusion Detection for Supercomputing . 2026
7.
Auslastungsanzeige für die Bibliothek [Bachelor]. 2026
6.
Covert Channel Amplification (Multiple Topics Available) [Bachelor/Master]. 2026
5.
Mehrere Bachelorarbeitsthemen in Zusammenarbeit mit dem kiz . 2026
4.
Censorship Resistant Scientific Repository [Master]. 2025 Jul.     [File] 
3.
Erweiterung bestehender Tunneling-Software für den Einsatz in Experimentalumgebungen [Bachelor]. 2025
2.
Fuzzing for Censorship Circumvention [Bachelor/Master]. 2025
1.
Evaluation of Tor Obfuscation Extensions [Bachelor/Master]. 2024