Deutsch Intern
Chair of Computer Science II - Software Engineering

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Lukas Iffländer

Professur für Informationssicherheit
Fakultät für Informatik/Mathematik

Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden (HTWD)
Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften
Friedrich-List-Platz 1, 01069 Dresden
T +49 351 462 3516

www.htw-dresden.de

Email: lukas.ifflaender@htw-dresden.de

Selected Publications:

  • Cybersecurity in the German Railway Sector. Möller, Dietmar; Iffländer, Lukas; Nord, Michael; Leppla, Bernd; Krause, Patrick; Czerkewski, Peter; Lenski, Nikolai; Mühl, Kristin; in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructure Security (CRITIS 2022) (2022).
  • Technology and security f...
    Technology and security forecast for the railway system – the timely identification of threats. Heinrich, Markus; Iffländer, Lukas; Scheuermann, Dirk; Katzenbeisser, Stefan; Unger, Simon; in Signalling+Datacommunication (2022). 114 96–103.
  • Software-supported threat...
    Software-supported threat analysis using attack graphs. Heinrich, Markus; Iffländer, Lukas; in Signalling & Datacommunication (2022). 114 28–34.
  • Emerging Technologies in ...
    Emerging Technologies in the Era of Digital Transformation: State of the Art in the Railway Sector. Möller, Dietmar; Iffländer, Lukas; Nord, Michael; Krause, Patrik; Leppla, Bernd; Mühl, Kristin; Lenski, Nikolai; Czerkewski, Peter; in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - ICINCO, (2022). 721–728.
  • Ransomware Detection in Databases through Dynamic Analysis of Query Sequences. Sendner, Christoph; Iffländer, Lukas; Schindler, Sebastian; Jobst, Michael; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Kounev, Samuel; in 2022 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) (2022).

List of all publications: Lukas Iffländer

Research Interests

Main research areas:

  • Network and Database Security
  • Self-aware Security Systems
  • Performance and Resource Management

Technology domains:

  • Software-define Networking
  • Network Function Virtualization
  • Container
  • Cloud Computing
  • Migration Technologies

Functions and Memberships

  • ICAC 2016 Local Organization and Web Chair
  • 2016-2021 SPEC Research Group Security Working Group: Publicity Manager, Secretary

Supervised Theses

2019[ to top ]
  • Review of Security Mechanisms in Publish/Subscribe Systems and their Applicability in IoT Context. Geiger, Ariane; Thesis; University of W{ü}rzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{ä}ude, 97074 W{ü}rzburg, Germany. (2019, Januar).
  • Heat-aware and CPU Boost-oriented Server Load Rotation. Knapp, Andreas; Thesis; University of W{ü}rzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{ä}ude, 97074 W{ü}rzburg, Germany. (2019, November).
  • Mosquitto Swatter: Demonstrating MQTT Vulnerabilities. Metzler, Samuel; Thesis; University of W{ü}rzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{ä}ude, 97074 W{ü}rzburg, Germany. (2019, Februar).
  • Hypercall Interface Testing for the Example of Hyper-V. Beierlieb, Lukas; Thesis; University of Würzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgebäude, 97074 Würzburg, Germany. (2019, Dezember).
2018[ to top ]
  • An Evaluation and Benchmarking Solution for Security Information and Event Management Systemes. Ben Yahya, Ala Eddine; Thesis; University of W{ü}rzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{ä}ude, 97074 W{ü}rzburg, Germany. (2018, März).
  • DIMAQS - Dynamic Identification of Malicious Query Sequences. Jobst, Michael; Thesis; University of W{ü}rzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{ä}ude, 97074 W{ü}rzburg, Germany. (2018, Juni).
  • Performance Evaluation of Security Network Function Reordering. Fella, Nicolas; Thesis; University of W{ü}rzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{ä}ude, 97074 W{ü}rzburg, Germany. (2018, Dezember).
  • Fully Automated Deployment and Benchmarking of Security Information and Event Management Systems. Heilmann, Jan-Philipp; Thesis; University of W{ü}rzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{ä}ude, 97074 W{ü}rzburg, Germany. (2018, Juni).
  • Performance and Security Influence of Augmenting DDoS Protection Systems using SDN and NFV. Beierlieb, Lukas; Thesis; University of W{ü}rzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{ä}ude, 97074 W{ü}rzburg, Germany. (2018, Januar).
  • P-Seminar: Umgang mit Mikroelektronik am Beispiel eines Quadrocopters. Otto, Rebecca; Thesis; University of W{ü}rzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{ä}ude, 97074 W{ü}rzburg, Germany. (2018, Dezember).
2017[ to top ]
  • Evaluation der Performanz von IDSes in virtualisierten Netzwerk-Infrastrukturen. Stoll, Jonathan; Thesis; University of W{ü}rzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{ä}ude, 97074 W{ü}rzburg, Germany. (2017, Juni).
  • Cybersecurity Risk Exposure: Towards a Novel Determination Approach based on OSINT. Leonhardt, Alexander; Thesis; University of W{ü}rzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{ä}ude, 97074 W{ü}rzburg, Germany. (2017, Oktober).
  • A Packet-Filtering Firewall for Cloud Computing. Hempfling, Christina; Thesis; University of W{ü}rzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{ä}ude, 97074 W{ü}rzburg, Germany. (2017, September).
  • A Framework for a Dynamic Function-Chaining-Controller for Virtualized Network Security Appliances. Ciner, Hayreddin; Thesis; University of W{ü}rzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{ä}ude, 97074 W{ü}rzburg, Germany. (2017, Oktober).
2016[ to top ]
  • P-Seminar: Raspberry Pi als Mediencenter für die Oberstufe. Frauendorfer, Katja; Thesis; University of W{ü}rzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{ä}ude, 97074 W{ü}rzburg, Germany. (2016, April).
  • Cyber-Physical Systems - Models and Security Aspects. Hempfling, Christina; Thesis; University of W{ü}rzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{ä}ude, 97074 W{ü}rzburg, Germany. (2016, Dezember).
  • Assessment of the Influence of I/O-Load Factors on Service Migration Performance. Liu, Xiaofen; Thesis; University of W{ü}rzburg; Am Hubland, Informatikgeb{ä}ude, 97074 W{ü}rzburg, Germany. (2016, Dezember).

Selected Reviewer Activities

Conferences:

  • IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID), 2019
  • Symposium on Software Performance (SSP), 2015-2017
  • European Performance Engineering Workshop (EPEW), 2017
  • International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS), 2016-2018
  • ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE), 2016
  • IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), 2016
  • European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC), 2016
  • International Workshop on Practical Applications of Stochastic Modelling (PASM), 2016
  • IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), 2015 - 2016
  • International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2015

Curriculum Vitae / Resume

Occupation:

Oct 2020 - Jan 2024 Scientific Desk Officer Cybersecurity at the German Center of Railway Traffic Research
Nov 2019 - Oct 2023 Research Group Lead at the Chair of Software-Engineering (Informatik II) headed by Prof. Samuel Kounev, University of Würzburg
Oct 2015 - Oct 2019 Research Assistant at the Chair of Software-Engineering (Informatik II) headed by Prof. Samuel Kounev, University of Würzburg

Mar 2010 - Oct 2015

Multiple Occupations as Student Researcher for Chairs Informatik I, Informatik II and the Institute of Computer Science of the University of Würzburg as well as the Advanced Technical College of Würzburg
August 2012 - Nov 2013 Student Trainee at the Locomotive and Components Department of the Infrastructure and Cities Sector of SIEMENS
May 2010 - July 2012 Student Trainee at the Expert House Department of the Industry Sector of SIEMENS
July 2009 -  August 2009 Internship at the Expert House Department of the Industry Sector of SIEMENS

Education:

Oct 2015 - Jan 2021 Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Würzburg
Oct 2012 - Jan 2016 Master of Science in Computer Science at the University of Würzburg

Oct 2009 - Jan 2013

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the University of Würzburg
June 2009 Abitur at the Kepler-Gymnasium-Weiden in Weiden in der Oberpfalz

Last Update: March 26, 2021