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. Before joining Ulm University, he was a lecturer (Privatdoz.) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, FernUniversität in Hagen, a professor and director of the Center for Technology and Transfer (ZTT), Hochschule Worms, and a 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: Responsible for the 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
since 2026: External member RARP (Rechenzentrumsallianz Rheinland-Pfalz)

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

Publications

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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.

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Wendzel S. IT-Sicherheit für TCP/IP- und IoT-Netzwerke: Grundlagen, Konzepte, Protokolle, Härtung. 1 ed. Springer; 2018

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Wendzel S, Olschewski D. Internet of Things und Smart Contracts: Risiken bei der Digitalisierung von Unternehmen. In: Springer; 2018

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Zillien S, Wendzel S. Detection of covert channels in TCP retransmissions. In: Proc. 23rd Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems (NordSec 2018). Springer; 2018 p. 203—218.

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Wendzel S, Eller D, Mazurczyk W. One Countermeasure, Multiple Patterns: Countermeasure Variation for Covert Channels. In: Proc. Central European Security Conference (CECC 2018). ACM; 2018 p. 1:1—1:6.

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Spenger G, Keler J, Wendzel S. Enhanced Ant Colony-inspired Parallel Algorithm to Improve Cryptographic PRNGs. Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (JCSM). 2017 Nov. 02; 6(2):147—170.

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Wendzel S, Tonejc J, Kaur J, Kobekova A. Cyber Security of Smart Buildings. In: H. Song and G. Fink and S. Jeschke, editors. Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems: Foundations and Applications. Wiley-IEEE Press; 2017 Jul. 17 p. 327—352.

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Lehner F, Mazurczyk W, Keller J, Wendzel S. Inter-protocol Steganography for Real-time Services and Its Detection Using Traffic Coloring Approach. In: Proc. 42th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2017). IEEE; 2017 Jul. 17 p. 78—85.

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Wendzel S, Caviglione L, Mazurczyk W, Lalande J. Network Information Hiding and Science 2.0: Can it be a Match?. International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications (IJET). 2017; 62(2):217—222.

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Mazurczyk W, Caviglione L, Wendzel S. Recent Advancements in Digital Forensics — Part 1. IEEE Security and Privacy (S&P). 2017; 15(6):10—11.