Modern society is increasingly dependent on the security and reliability of the Internet and their information technologies, but the vulnerability of our digital world is still proved painfully by hacker attacks on networks or databases, computer viruses, internet worms, and trojan horse attacks. In addition to these facts: the more sensible data like online orders, medical data or electronic cash is transmitted in open networks like the Internet, the more targets exist for such attacks. So computer and network protection must be one of the most important objectives.

In Security Engineering our research and development work is mainly focused on:

• Network&Internet Security, with special emphases on
• Physical Separation -  Lock-Keeper,
• Security Analytics - Alert Correlation & Attack Graphs,
• Security Lab Creation - Scenario-Driven Security Experiment Consturction and Management
• IPv6 Security - StateLess Address Auto-Configuration (SLAAC), Secure Neighbor Discovery
• Modeling of Security-related Knowledge - System Information, Vulnerability Information, Security Event, ......

• Cloud and SOA-Security (SOA - Service Oriented Architectures), with special emphases on
• Trusted Cloud
• Reputation Systems,
• Identity Management,
• Model-Driven Security, and

• Security Awareness
  • tele-TASK - archiving security related lectures, talks, symposia
  • tele-Lab - online security tutoring platform

• Lock-Keeper and Physical Separation Technology
• Correlation-based Security Analytics
• Virtual Laboratories for IT-Security
• SOA-Security
• HPI Identity Provider

• Safer Internet - Protecting Internet users from harmful and objectionable Internet content
• Trust Services
• Various Consulting Projects in IT-Security and Security Engineering on behalf of Institut für Telematik
• Verschiedene IT-Sicherheits-Dienstleistungen
• Sicherheits-Konzepte, -Verfahren und -Tests ("Tiger Team")
• Sicherheit in der mobilen Kommunikation
• PKI - Public Key Infrastructures
• Trust Center, Zertifikate
• Digitale Signaturen
• Cybercrime und Cyberwar

Visualization of IT-Security Features

• Digital Signature
• SSL - Secure Socket Layer

Telelectures and Courses on IT-Security

• 32 Lectures on Informationssicherheit
• 20 Lectures on Internet Security
• Computer Crime und Cyberwar
• Sicherung Mobiler Zugänge
• Various other lectures

Team

• Team leader: Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel
• Team members:
• Dr. Feng Cheng
• Dipl.-Inf. Christian Willems
• Sebastian Roschke, MSc.
• Dipl. Inf. Matthias Quasthoff
• Rehab Alnemr, MSc.
• Ivonne Thomas, MSc.
• Robert Warschofsky, MSc.
• Dipl.-Inf. Maxim Schnjakin
• Ahmad AlSa'deh,MSc.
• Tacio Santos, MSc.
• Hosnieh Rafiee, MSc.
• Seraj Fayyad, MSc.
• Student co-workers:
  • Thomas Klingbeil
  • David Jäger
  • Florian Westphal
  • Bjoern Groneberg
  • Richard Meissner
• Former co-workers, students, and international summer interns:
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Engel
• Dipl. Wirt. Inf. Dirk Cordel
• Prof. Dr. E.-G. Haffner
• Dr. Andreas Heuer
• Dr. Frank Losemann
• Dr. Uwe Roth
• Dr. Michael Schmitt
• M.Sc. Robert Schuppenies
• Dipl. Inf. Michael Menzel
• Dr. Michael Noll

Publications

• Our conference papers on Security Engineering are listed within this list
• Our journal papers can be found here
• Our technical reports
• Our Handbook on WWW was published by Springer in 2004. A multimedia book presentation can be found here.

Services and Portals

• Tele-Lab IT-Security - e-learning in a virtual laboratory on IT-security
• Archive of various tele-lectures, e.g. the tele-lectures of Christoph Meinel about various aspects of IT-security

Former Activities / Projects / Cooperations 

• Timestamping service that provides a secure and certified connection of a time information with an electronic document, e.g. time of publishing, or time of signing.
• Institute for Telematics