Faculty
2019: Busy Beaver Award "Selected Topics in Mobile Security", Universität des Saarlandes
I am security researcher with focus on (mobile) operating system security and trusted computing. In the past, I was particularly looking into mandatory access control systems for the Android OS and integrating hardware security building blocks into mobile operating systems.
Since May 2016 I am employed as the research group leader of the Trusted Systems Group at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbrücken, Germany.
NDSS
Bringing Balance to the Force: Dynamic Analysis of the Android Application FrameworkNetwork and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium 2021
ACSAC
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2020)
SP
Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
SP
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, May 2019
USENIX-Security
Usenix Security Symposium
SAC
34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing
NDSS
NDSS Symposium 2019
NDSS
NDSS Symposium 2019
Seminar: Selected Topics in Mobile Security
In this seminar, we will discuss current results and new problems in the mobile security domain based on relevant scientific papers. The focus of the selected papers lies on Android, given its high popularity among researchers. The topics include usability aspects of Android's permission system and security-relevant APIs, security extensions at different levels of Android's software stack, app analysis, and newly identified attack vectors.
Advanced Lecture: Mobile Security
This advanced lecture deals with different, fundamental aspects of mobile operating systems and application security, with a strong focus on the popular, open-source Android OS and its ecosystem.