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Research Interest

• Intrusion Detection Systems
• Privacy Enhancing Technologies
• Machine Learning

 

Teaching

• SS22: Datenkommunikation und Sicherheit
• WS20/21: Seminar (Bachelor): Advances in Cryptography and IT-Security
• WS20/21: Seminar (Bachelor): Selected Topics in Cryptography and IT-Security
• SS20: Security Lab Seminar (Master)
• SS19: Datenkommunikation und Sicherheit

 

BA/MA Theses

• Available Theses:
  • currently no open thesis
• In Progress:
  • Evaluating and Enhancing Phishing Classification based on Certificate Transparency (MA)
  • Implementing Classification-as-a-Service for DGA Detection (BA)
  • Malicious Network Traffic Analysis on Smartphone Applications (MA)
  • Explainability Analysis of Deep Learning based DGA Classifiers (MA)
• Finished Theses:
  • 2022, Justus von Brandt, Detection of new DGAs in the Multiclass DGA Classification Setting (MA)
  • 2021, Konstantin Kaulen, Adversarial Attacks and Defenses on DGA classifiers (BA)
  • 2021, Tim Amelung, A Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Approach for DGA Detection (MA)
  • 2020, Nils Eberhardt, Analyzing the Discretization Problem for Adversarial Training of DGA Detection Classifiers (BA)
  • 2020, Benedikt Holmes, A Study of Model Inversion Defenses in Deep Learning (MA)
  • 2020, Markus Baumgart, DGA Detection on Encrypted DNS Traffic using Machine Learning (MA)
  • 2020, Nils Faerber, Multiclass Classification of DGAs using Classical Machine Learning Approaches (BA)
  • 2019, Mike Lorang, Hardening of Domain Generation Algorithm Classifiers (MA)

If you are interested in writing a thesis related to intrusion detection feel free to contact me.

 

Projects

• SAPPAN (finished)

 

Publications

Title	Author(s)
The More, the Better? A Study on Collaborative Machine Learning for DGA Detection Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2021)	Drichel, Arthur (Corresponding author) Holmes, Benedikt (Corresponding author) von Brandt, Justus (Corresponding author) Meyer, Ulrike (Corresponding author)
Towards Privacy-Preserving Classification-as-a-Service for DGA Detection Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2021)	Drichel, Arthur (Corresponding author) Gurabi, Mehdi Akbari (Corresponding author) Amelung, Tim (Corresponding author) Meyer, Ulrike (Corresponding author)
CoinPrune : Shrinking Bitcoin’s Blockchain Retrospectively Journal Article (2021)	Matzutt, Roman (Corresponding author) Kalde, Benedikt Pennekamp, Jan Drichel, Arthur Henze, Martin Wehrle, Klaus
Sharing FANCI Features : A Privacy Analysis of Feature Extraction for DGA Detection Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2021)	Holmes, Benedikt (Corresponding author) Drichel, Arthur (Corresponding author) Meyer, Ulrike (Corresponding author)
First Step Towards EXPLAINable DGA Multiclass Classification Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2021)	Drichel, Arthur (Corresponding author) Faerber, Nils (Corresponding author) Meyer, Ulrike (Corresponding author)
Finding Phish in a Haystack : A Pipeline for Phishing Classification on Certificate Transparency Logs Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2021)	Drichel, Arthur (Corresponding author) Drury, Vincent Jakob (Corresponding author) von Brandt, Justus (Corresponding author) Meyer, Ulrike (Corresponding author)
How to Securely Prune Bitcoin's Blockchain Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2020)	Matzutt, Roman (Corresponding author) Kalde, Benedikt (Corresponding author) Pennekamp, Jan (Corresponding author) Drichel, Arthur (Corresponding author) Henze, Martin (Corresponding author) Wehrle, Klaus (Corresponding author)
Interpretable Visualizations of Deep Neural Networks for Domain Generation Algorithm Detection Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2020)	Becker, Franziska (Corresponding author) Drichel, Arthur (Corresponding author) Müller, Christoph (Corresponding author) Ertl, Thomas (Corresponding author)
Making Use of NXt to Nothing: The Effect of Class Imbalances on DGA Detection Classifiers Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2020)	Drichel, Arthur (Corresponding author) Meyer, Ulrike (Corresponding author) Schüppen, Samuel (Corresponding author) Teubert, Dominik (Corresponding author)
Analyzing the Real-World Applicability of DGA Classifiers Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2020)	Drichel, Arthur (Corresponding author) Meyer, Ulrike (Corresponding author) Schüppen, Samuel (Corresponding author) Teubert, Dominik (Corresponding author)