Faculty
Winter Term 2023/2024: Busy Beaver Teaching Award "Foundations of Cybersecurity 1", Saarland University
2024: Distinguished Reviewer Award: NDSS
2023: Distinguished Paper Award: IEEE S&P
2021: Best Reviewer Award: ACM CCS
Summer term 2021: top 5 "digital teaching" lecture (out of 117) at CS Department of Saarland University
Winter Term 2018/2019: Busy Beaver Teaching Award "Foundations of Cybersecurity 1", Saarland University
Summer Term 2018: Busy Beaver Teaching Award "Web Security", Saarland University
2015/2016: Finalist for Best Dissertation Award (CAST e.V.)
2009/2010: Best German Bachelor Thesis (CAST e.V.)
Dr. Ben Stock is a tenured faculty at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. Prior to that, he completed the tenure track at CISPA and was a research group leader and previously postdoctoral researcher at the Center for IT-Security, Privacy and Accountability at Saarland University in the group of Michael Backes. Before joining CISPA, he was a PhD student and research fellow at the Security Research Group of the University Erlangen-Nuremberg, supervised by Felix Freiling. During that time, he was fortunate enough to join Ben Livshits and Ben Zorn at Microsoft Research in Redmond for an internship.
His research interests lie within Web Security, Network Security, Reverse Engineering, and Vulnerability Notifications. In addition, he enjoys the challenges provided in Capture the Flag competitions and is always trying to get more students involved in them (especially in the local team saarsec).
NDSS
NDSS 2020
ACSAC
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2019)
CCS
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2019)
ASIACCS
ACM AsiaCCSAsiaCCS
NDSS
NDSS Symposium 2019
DIMVA
DIMVADetection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA '18)
NDSS
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS '18).
EuroS&P
Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P '17)
USENIX-Security
Proceedings of the 26th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '17)
RAID
RAID 2016, 19th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses
Foundations of Web Security
This lecture covers the fundamental security problems that are prevalent on the Web as well as security mechanisms to mitigate them. A particular focus lies on the offensive side of Web security, whereas defense mechanisms merely need to be added to stop the attacks.
Foundations of Cybersecurity 1
Students learn foundational security principles, basics of cryptography, network and network security, as well as privacy-preserving mechanisms. They learn to define security goals and are familiarized with the most common attack scenarios.