Faculty
U.S. FBI Honorable Mention for Zeus P2P Botnet Takedown
2018: Capital - Young Elite - 40 below 40
Technology Review - Top Innovators Below 35 in Germany
2017: Busy Beaver Award for "Cybersecurity I" and "Malware Analysis and Intrusion Detection"
Prof. Dr. Christian Rossow is tenured Faculty at CISPA and leads the System Security research group. He also holds a professorship from the CS department of Saarland University. From 2014 until 2016, he was an Independent Research Group leader at the Cluster of Excellence MMCI at Saarland University. Before, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the VU Amsterdam (Herbert Bos) and the Ruhr University Bochum (Thorsten Holz). Before his postdoctoral stays, he worked at the Institute for Internet Security if(is) in Gelsenkirchen, Germany and obtained his PhD degree from the VU Amsterdam in April 2013. His primary research centers on in these areas: Cyber Threats (e.g., malware), Network Security and Privacy, Program Analysis and Attack Traceback.
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment
GI International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA)
Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES)
International Symposium on Research in Attacks Intrusions and Defenses (RAID)
Usenix Security Symposium (USENIX-Security)