Author: Martin

Today, the world speaks about 6,500 different languages. English and French are often considered world languages, but the languages of India and China are by far the most spoken languages due to the large population in these countries. While English remains a dominating language for science and business in the Western world, in reality, it […]

Remote-work as a challenge for security Considering people, processes, and technology when planning for remote work is important. Organizations must always put people first and see the world through their eyes to make remote-work work. Otherwise, they will run the risk of their employees undermining compliance processes and using shadow IT, simply because they cannot […]

In a remote world, employees and employers have an essential duty to one another—to ensure the protection of critical information. By Zee Johnson from HRO Today

Wesentliche Prozesse für die Cybersicherheit sind zur Absicherung von Organisationen notwendig. Hochschulen weltweit sind immer wieder Ziele von Cyberangriffen.

In unserer digitalisierten Welt spielt die Gefahren durch Cyberkriminalität eine entscheidende Rolle und Verbraucher sind beliebte Angriffsziele und oft leider unzureichend geschützt. Laut einer Befragung des Branchenverbandes Bitkom fürchten sich gut zwei Drittel (65 Prozent) der befragten Internetnutzer davor, dass ihre Passwörter und Konten durch Kriminelle illegal genutzt werden könnten. Fast die Hälfte hat Sorgen vor Betrug […]

Rund 43 Prozent aller deutschen Unternehmen waren bereits in mindestens einem Glied ihrer Lieferketten von Cyberattacken betroffen, dennoch wird das Risiko solcher Angriffe noch immer unterschätzt. Ausfälle in den Lieferketten eines Unternehmens können gravierende Auswirkungen auf das eigene Unternehmen haben, da IT-Systeme und Produktivität potenziell bedroht sind. […] Zum Artikel

The number of phishing emails any PhD student gets is significant. There are invitations to submit to conferences and journals you have never heard of. Other emails stand out because they appeal to your ethics, values, or cultural norms.

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The education sector remains very vulnerable as ransomware shame sites continue to feature teaching institutions from around the world. Some of the latest victims were universities from Ireland and Israel, but why are such institutions so vulnerable? Their IT teams are often challenged with a diverse group of staff, students, and contractors regularly using their […]

On Sunday, I received an urgent message from a friend. PayPal had sent him an email saying that a co-worker had sent him money. This was not unexpected, as he was collecting contributions towards a farewell gift for another coworker. What struck him as odd were the instructions to claim the money by logging into […]

Happy to announce that I’ve started a position as Security Awareness Advocate with the world leader in Security Awareness Training, KnowBe4. I’m based in Berlin, Germany. My main area of attention will be the DACH region, but you can expect to see me around EMEA and else where. While the industry names itself “Security Awareness […]

This paper summarises a pivotal chapter of my doctoral thesis. It has just been submitted for peer review and is now available as a preprint. In spite of research recognizing the home as a shared space and privacy as inherently social, privacy in smart homes has mainly been researched from an individual angle. Sometimes contrasting […]

Empowering privacy in the connected home: communal use of smart technologies (thesis). Doctor of Philosophy. Department of Computer Science and Linacre College, University of Oxford (accepted on June 30th 2022). It’s finally available online: The latest wave of internet-connected smart home technologies promises convenience and control over a diverse network of different systems, such as appliances, […]

I’m happy to share that I’ve joined VDI/VDE-IT as a research consultant with a focus on cyber security. I will be consulting funding organisations and innovators/researchers on trends in the field and support clients in implementing funding programs. I still pursue my research interests and will be happy to chat about any of my work.

I finally found some time to collate information on the different research projects I worked on over the years. Check out the projects page.

Data Security and Privacy, MSc in Software and Systems Security. Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.

(Paper, 2nd author) accepted to CHI 2021 in Yokohama, Japan Smart home products aren’t living up to their promise. They claim to transform the way we live, providing convenience, energy efficiency, and safety. However, the reality is significantly less profound and often frustrating. This is particularly apparent in security and privacy experiences: powerlessness, confusion, and annoyance have […]

Brown Bag Seminar at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford. Virtual Event.

I just uploaded an old report on some research that did not become part of my thesis but was pivotal to my PhD journey: Exploring Social Acceptability and Expectations in Communal Use of Smart Home Devices (Research Report) from July 2020. This report documents an effort to explore communal use in smart homes with a factorial vignette […]

A Case for Contextualised Participatory Design Published in the 2020 Yearbook, Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security. University of Oxford. There is a gap between person-centred data protection legislation and practices, and the communal implications of internet-connected technology. Modern communal spaces – such as our homes – typically involve heterogeneous groupings of individuals with […]

Data Security and Privacy, MSc in Software and Systems Security. Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.

(Talk) at the 2020 USENIX Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR 20). Virtual event. There’s a gap between the personal focus of data protection legislation and practices, and the communal implications of internet-connected technology. Through our research, we’ve started to explore how existing design tools and methods can help understand and address communal implications. […]