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. Covert Storage Caches Using the NTP Protocol. In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2020). New York, NY, USA: ACM; 2020      [DOI]      [File] 
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Szary P, Mazurczyk W, Wendzel S, Caviglione L. Design and Performance Evaluation of Reversible Network Covert Channels. In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2020). New York, NY, USA: ACM; 2020      [DOI]      [File] 
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Mazurczyk W, Wendzel S, Chourib M, Keller J. Countering adaptive network covert communication with dynamic wardens. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS). 2019; 94:712—725.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Velinov A, Mileva A, Wendzel S, Mazurczyk W. Covert Channels in the MQTT-based Internet of Things. ACCESS. 2019; 7:161899—161915.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Wendzel S, Link F, Eller D, Mazurczyk W. Detection of Size Modulation Covert Channels Using Countermeasure Variation. Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS). 2019; 25(11):1396—1416.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Mazurczyk W, Caviglione L, Wendzel S. Recent Advancements in Digital Forensics, Part 2. IEEE Security and Privacy (S&P). 2019; 17(1):7—8.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Lv Z, Mazurczyk W, Wendzel S, Song H. Recent Advances in Cyber-Physical Security in Industrial Environments. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII). 2019; 15(12):6468—6471.      [DOI]      [File] 
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Wendzel S, Plötner J. Einstieg in Linux . 8 ed. Rheinwerk Verlag; 2019     [File] 
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Wendzel S, Caviglione L, Checco A, Mileva A, Lalande J, Mazurczyk W. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Information Security Methodology and Replication Studies (IWSMR 2019). ACM; 2019
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Caviglione L, Mazurczyk W, Wendzel S. Advanced Information Hiding Techniques for Modern Botnets. In: G. Kambourakis and others, editors. Botnets: Architectures, Countermeasures, and Challenges. Taylor & Francis; 2019 p. 165—188.      [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