German 'Diploma' in
Electrical Engineering
with specialization in Data Processing from the Technical University Munich
/ Germany in 01/1992
Research assistant /
guest researcher at the University
of Siegen / Germany from 08/1999 to 07/2005
Doctorate in
07/2005
Experience
Programming
Contractor at MAN
Technologie AG, Munich / Germany, from 08/1990 to 08/1992.
First contact to data security topics (thesis on data security on DOS
PCs as well as work on DOS-based encryption and access control
software products).
Employee at Utimaco
Safeware AG,
Munich / Germany, from 09/1992 to 06/1997.
Development work on 2 OS/2 access control and encryption
software products.
Close cooperation with IBM USA.
Beginning with 1995, first project management experience.
Project Management
Employee at Utimaco
SafeConcept GmbH, Linz / Austria, from 07/1997 to 04/1999.
Product Development Manager for network encryption product
("VPN"). Project development responsibility for customer projects.
Development coordination within University of Siegen
participation in GNIUS
EU research project (IST programme). GNIUS deals with mobile e-commerce
based on
GSM data protocols of generation 2.5 (HSCSD, GPRS etc.).
Manager of the 'SafeGuard Easy' (Windows hard disk
encryption) development team at Utimaco
Safeware AG,
Munich / Germany, from 11/2005 to 06/2007.
Project manager for Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) project
at Utimaco
Safeware AG,
Munich / Germany, from 07/2007 to 09/2008.
Project manager for 'SafeGuard Enterprise' Disk Encryption
for Mac OS X project at Utimaco
Safeware AG,
Munich / Germany, from 10/2008.
Research Topics
Security aspects of Thin Clients
Security aspects of GSM-based data protocols (HSCSD, GPRS
etc.)
Security and privacy aspects of popular ad-hoc networking
protocols (IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth)
Data Leakage Prevention and its integration into classic
Data Security architectures
Doctorate Project
As ad-hoc networking systems
like WLAN and Bluetooth go into mainstream, a new model of
location-based service architectures arises that competes with
"classic" location-based service architectures like WAP over GSM/GPRS.
This new model benefits from both lower costs (due to the use of
royalty-free radio technologies) and lower technical and
administrational overhead.
The Subscriptionless Mobile Networking
project (see Talks)
outlines
an architecture that provides state-of-the-art security with an
emphasis on user anonymity and privacy. It uses a slightly modified
TCP/IP stack with HTML/HTTP-based data transmission and Bluetooth as
link layer, and is realized as open source software.
