Institut für Organisation und Management von Informationssystemen

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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Heßeling C, Keller J, Wendzel S. Optimized DYST-like Amplification Covert Channel. In: Proc. ARES EU Workshops 2026. Springer; 2026      [DOI] 
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von Suchodoletz D, Neumair B, Frank M, Heuveline V, Walter T, Wendzel S, Kohl-Frey O, Farrenkopf S, Pfister A, Beutner J, Resch M, Dorn R, Nau T. Framework Concept of the Universities in the State of Baden-Württemberg: High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Data-Intensive Computing (DIC) in the Period 2025–2032. In: Proceedings of the 10th bwHPC Symposium: HPC Activites in Baden-Württemberg. Karlsruhe: KIT Scientific Publishing; 2026      [DOI] 
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Wendzel S, Lenz J, Zillien S. Internetzensur: Was ist das? Wie funktioniert sie? Was für Auswirkungen hat sie?. In: Hans-Christian Pust, editors. Weggesperrt!? Geheimes Wissen und verbotene Bücher. Stuttgart: Kröner / Württembergische Landesbibliothek; 2026 p. 128-129.
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Zillmann W, Lenz J, Zillien S, Volpert S, Wendzel S. Exponat zum Thema Internetzensur. 2026      [DOI] 
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Wendzel S, Keller J, Volpert S. Detection of Network Information Hiding Artifacts — A Case for HPC?. In: Proceedings of the 11th bwHPC Symposium. University of Tübingen, Germany: 2025 Sep. 23     [Datei] 
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Wendzel S, Caviglione L, Mazurczyk W, Mileva A, Dittmann J, Krätzer C, Lamshöft K, Vielhauer C, Hartmann L, Keller J, Neubert T, Zillien S. A Generic Taxonomy for Steganography Methods. ACM Comput. Surv.. 2025      [DOI]      [Datei] 
150.
Wendzel S, Schmidbauer T, Zillien S, Keller J. DYST (Did You See That?): An Amplified Covert Channel That Points To Previously Seen Data. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). 2025; 22(1):614-631.      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Wendzel S, Krätzer C, Dittmann J, Caviglione L, Mileva A, Schmidbauer T, Vielhauer C, Zander S. Combining Different Existing Methods for Describing Steganography Hiding Methods. In: Coppens, Bart and Volckaert, Bruno and Naessens, Vincent and De Sutter, Bjorn, editors. Availability, Reliability and Security. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland; 2025 p. 271—289.
148.
Petrov D, Ruffing P, Zillien S, Wendzel S. Domainator: Detecting and Identifying DNS-Tunneling Malware Using Metadata Sequences. In: Dalla Preda, Mila and Schrittwieser, Sebastian and Naessens, Vincent and De Sutter, Bjorn, editors. Availability, Reliability and Security. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland; 2025 p. 118—140.
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Schoffit J, Pietzschmann L, Prechtel P, Eisermann D, Wendzel S, Kargl F. Enhancing client security in zero trust architectures: a device-agent policy enforcement point for compartmentalized network management. In: Koldehofe, Boris and Klingler, Florian and Sommer, Christoph and Hummel, Karin Anna and Amthor, Peter, editors. Proc. International Conference on Networked Systems 2025 (NetSys 2025). Ilmenau: ilmedia; 2025 p. 29—32.      [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