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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Mazurczyk W, Wendzel S, Azagra Villares I, Szczypiorski K. On importance of steganographic cost for network steganography. Security and Communication Networks (SCN). 2016; 9(8):781—790.      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Wendzel S, Keller J. Special Issue on Security, Privacy and Reliability of Smart Buildings. Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS). 2016; 22(9):1201—1202.      [DOI]      [Datei] 
54.
Wendzel S, Ploetner J. Einstieg in Linux. 7 ed. Rheinwerk Verlag; 2016
53.
Mazurczyk W, Wendzel S, Zander S, Houmansadr A, Szczypiorski K. Information Hiding in Communication Networks. Fundamentals, Mechanisms, and Applications. Wiley-IEEE; 2016      [DOI] 
52.
Meier M, Reinhardt D, Wendzel S. Sicherheit 2016 — Beiträge der 8. Jahrestagung des Fachbereichs Sicherheit der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI). Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI); 2016     [Datei] 
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Wendzel S, Mazurczyk W. Poster: An Educational Network Protocol for Covert Channel Analysis Using Patterns. In: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2016). New York, NY, USA: ACM; 2016 p. 1739–1741.      [DOI]      [Datei] 
50.
Wendzel S, Palmer C. Creativity in Mind: Evaluating and Maintaining Advances in Network Steganographic Research.. Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS). 2015; 21(12):1684—1705.      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Wendzel S, Zander S, Fechner B, Herdin C. Pattern-based survey and categorization of network covert channel techniques. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR). 2015; 47(3):1—26.      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Szczypiorski K, Janicki A, Wendzel S. "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly": Evaluation of Wi-Fi Steganography. In: 6th International Conference on Networking and Information Technology (ICNIT 2015). 2015 p. 747—752.      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Caviglione L, Lalande J, Mazurczyk W, Wendzel S. Analysis of human awareness of security and privacy threats in smart environments. In: International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy, and Trust (HAS 2015). 2015 p. 165—177.      [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