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. 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/

Publikationen

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Wendzel S, Keller J. Einführung in die Forschungsthematik der verdeckten Kanäle. In: Informationstechnologie und Sicherheitspolitik — Wird der dritte Weltkrieg im Internet ausgetragen?. BoD; 2012 p. 115—124.     [Datei] 
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Wendzel S. Control Protocols for Network Covert Channels. In: Proc. 7th GI FG SIDAR Graduierten-Workshop über Reaktive Sicherheit (SPRING), SIDAR-Report SR-2012-01. Gesellschaft für Informatik, FB Sicherheit, SIG SIDAR; 2012 p. 24.
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Wendzel S. Covert and side channels in buildings and the prototype of a building-aware active warden. In: 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012). 2012 p. 6753—6758.      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Wendzel S, Kahler B, Rist T. Covert channels and their prevention in building automation protocols: A prototype exemplified using BACnet. In: 2012 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom), Internet of Things (iThings) and Cyber-physical Systems (CPSCom 2012). 2012 p. 731—736.      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Wendzel S, Keller J. Design and implementation of an active warden addressing protocol switching covert channels. In: Proc. 7th International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP 2012). 2012 p. 1—6.     [Datei] 
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Wendzel S, Zander S. Detecting protocol switching covert channels. In: Proc. 37th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2012). 2012 p. 280—283.      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Backs P, Wendzel S, Keller J. Dynamic routing in covert channel overlays based on control protocols. In: 2012 International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST 2012). 2012 p. 32—39.     [Datei] 
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Wendzel S, Keller J. Systematic engineering of control protocols for covert channels. In: IFIP International Conference on Communications and Multimedia Security (CMS 2012). 2012 p. 131—144.      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Wendzel S. The problem of traffic normalization within a covert channel's network environment learning phase. In: Sicherheit 2012 — Sicherheit, Schutz und Zuverlässigkeit. Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.; 2012 p. 149—161.     [Datei] 
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Wendzel S, Keller J. Low-attention forwarding for mobile network covert channels. In: B. de Decker et. al., editors. Proc. 12th Conference on Communications and Multimedia Security (CMS 2011). Springer; 2011 Okt. p. 122—133.      [DOI]      [Datei] 

Offene Abschlussarbeiten und Projekte

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
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Censorship Resistant Scientific Repository [Master]. 2025 Jul.     [Datei] 
3.
Erweiterung bestehender Tunneling-Software für den Einsatz in Experimentalumgebungen [Bachelor]. 2025
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Fuzzing for Censorship Circumvention [Bachelor/Master]. 2025
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Evaluation of Tor Obfuscation Extensions [Bachelor/Master]. 2024