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/

Publikationen

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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]      [Datei] 
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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]      [Datei] 
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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]      [Datei] 
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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]      [Datei] 
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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]      [Datei] 
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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]      [Datei] 
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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]      [Datei] 
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Mazurczyk W, Wendzel S. Information Hiding — Challenges for Forensic Experts. Communications of the ACM. 2018; 61(1):86—94.      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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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]      [Datei] 
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Wendzel S. IT-Sicherheit für TCP/IP- und IoT-Netzwerke: Grundlagen, Konzepte, Protokolle, Härtung. 1 ed. Springer; 2018      [DOI]      [Datei] 

Offene Abschlussarbeiten und Projekte

4.
(AI-based) Intrusion Detection for Supercomputing . 2026
3.
Covert Channel Amplification (Multiple Topics Available) [Bachelor/Master]. 2026
2.
Fuzzing for Censorship Circumvention [Bachelor/Master]. 2025
1.
Evaluation of Tor Obfuscation Extensions [Bachelor/Master]. 2024