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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Lenz J, Bozakov Z, Wendzel S, Vrhovec S. Why People Replace their Aging Smart Devices: A Push–Pull–Mooring Perspective. Computers & Security (COSE). 2023; 130:103258.      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Mileva A, Franqueira V, Wendzel S. Proceedings of the European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference 2023 (EICC 2023). ACM; 2023      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Schorr V, Kamenev N, Bleistein T, Werth D, Wendzel S, Weigold T. Power Consumption Analysis as a Detection Indicator for Cyberattacks on Smart Home Devices. In: Proc. Energy Informatics.Academy Conference 2023, Part II. Springer; 2023 p. 224—239.      [DOI]      [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. TechRxiv. 2022 Jul.      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Szary P, Mazurczyk W, Wendzel S, Caviglione L. Analysis of Reversible Network Covert Channels. ACCESS. 2022; 10:41226—41238.      [DOI]      [Datei] 
129.
Hartmann L, Wendzel S. Anomaly Detection for Industrial Control Systems Through Totally Integrated Automation Portal Project History. Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications (JoWUA). 2022; 13(3):4—24.      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Schmidbauer T, Wendzel S. Detection Of Computational Intensive Reversible Covert Channels Based On Packet Runtime. Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications (JoWUA). 2022; 13(1):137—166.      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Wendzel S, Mazurczyk W, Caviglione L, Houmansadr A. Emerging Topics in Defending Networked Systems. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS). 2022; 128:317—319.      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Wendzel S, Caviglione L, Mileva A, Lalande J, Mazurczyk W. Guest Editorial: Information Security Methodology and Replication Studies. it — Information Technology (ITIT). 2022; 64(1-2):1—3.      [DOI]      [Datei] 
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Mileva A, Velinov A, Dimitrova V, Caviglione L, Wendzel S. Information Hiding in the DICOM Message Service and Upper Layer Service with Entropy-Based Detection. Entropy. 2022; 24(2)1      [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
4.
Censorship Resistant Scientific Repository [Master]. 2025 Jul.     [Datei] 
3.
Erweiterung bestehender Tunneling-Software für den Einsatz in Experimentalumgebungen [Bachelor]. 2025
2.
Fuzzing for Censorship Circumvention [Bachelor/Master]. 2025
1.
Evaluation of Tor Obfuscation Extensions [Bachelor/Master]. 2024