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. 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

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