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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Schmidbauer T, Wendzel S, Mileva A, Mazurczyk W. Introducing Dead Drops to Network Steganography Using ARP-Caches and SNMP-Walks. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2019). New York, NY, USA: ACM; 2019 p. 64:1—64:10.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Wendzel S. Protocol-independent Detection of "Message Ordering" Network Covert Channels. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2019). New York, NY, USA: ACM; 2019 p. 63:1—63:8.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Mazurczyk W, Szary P, Wendzel S, Caviglione L. Towards Reversible Storage Network Covert Channels. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2019). New York, NY, USA: ACM; 2019 p. 69:1—69:8.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Wendzel S. Get Me Cited, Scotty! Analysis of Citations in Covert Channel/Steganography Research. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018). ACM; 2018 Aug. 20 p. 13:1—13:8.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Mazurczyk W, Wendzel S, Cabaj K. Towards Deriving Insights into Data Hiding Methods Using Pattern-based Approach. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018). ACM; 2018 Aug. 20 p. 10:1—10:10.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Keidel R, Wendzel S, Zillien S, Conner ES, Haas G. WoDiCoF — A Testbed for the Evaluation of (Parallel) Covert Channel Detection Algorithms. Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS). 2018 Jul. 17; 24(5):556—576.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Caviglione L, Mazurczyk W, Wendzel S, Zander S. Emerging and Unconventional: New Attacks and Innovative Detection Techniques. Security and Communication Networks (SCN). 2018; 2018:1—7.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Mazurczyk W, Wendzel S. Information Hiding — Challenges for Forensic Experts. Communications of the ACM. 2018; 61(1):86—94.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Cabaj K, Caviglione L, Mazurczyk W, Wendzel S, Woodward A, Zander S. The New Threats of Information Hiding: the Road Ahead. IEEE IT Professional. 2018; 20(3):31—39.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Wendzel S. IT-Sicherheit für TCP/IP- und IoT-Netzwerke: Grundlagen, Konzepte, Protokolle, Härtung. 1 ed. Springer; 2018      [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