Education
Digital forensics, malware analysis and computer-science fundamentals at USTP since 2014, and IT forensics for cybercrime investigators of the Landespolizei Schleswig-Holstein since 2021.
Courses and trainingWhat I do
Research
From malware behaviour and targeted attacks to game-theoretic models of attack and defence. More than 35 papers, the Josef Ressel Center TARGET and the FWF project INODES.
Topics, projects and papersGamification
PenQuest is a two-player digital board game: one side attacks a simulated network, the other defends it. Every card is a real technique from MITRE ATT&CK, D3FEND or NIST.
How the game worksNovels
Searing Star, a science-fiction novel about the fear of the unknown; Collision Domain, a hacking thriller; and Verity, a German-language Krimi.
The booksCurrently
PenQuest 2.0
A reworked interface and the Scenario Creator are in development. Alpha testers welcome.
Police IT forensics
The IT forensics module of the RIISC cybercrime programme for the Landespolizei Schleswig-Holstein. About the programme
Computers & Security
“Gamifying information security: Adversarial risk exploration for IT/OT infrastructures”. Read the paper