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

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