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.
Activities in Research and Development
In Security Engineering our research and development work is mainly focused on:
- Network Security, with special emphases on
- Physical Separation,
- Intrusion Detection & Attack Graphs, and
- Security aspects of Virtualization,
as well as
- SOA-Security (SOA - Service Oriented Architectures), with special emphases on
- Reputation Systems,
- Identity Management, and
- Model-Driven Security.
Running Research Projects
- Lock-Keeper and Physical Separation Technology
- Virtual Laboratories for IT-Security
- SOA-Security
- HPI Identity Provider
Further Security Projects
- 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
Other Relevant Information
Visualization of IT-Security Features
Telelectures and Courses on IT-Security
- 32 Lectures on Internet Security
- 25 Lectures on Informationsicherheit
- Computer Crime und Cyberwar
- Sicherung Mobiler Zugänge
- Various other lectures
People
- Team leader: Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel
- Team members:
- Dipl. Inf. Feng Cheng
- Dipl. Inf. Michael Menzel
- Dipl. Wirt. Inf. Michael Noll
- Dipl. Inf. Mathias Quasthoff
- Dipl. Inf. Bjoern Shuenemann
- M.Sc. Rehab Alnemr
- M.Sc. Ivonne Thomas
- M.Sc. Sebastian Roschke
- Student co-workers:
- Thomas Klingbeil
- David Jäger
- 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
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