Markus Dahlmanns

Markus Dahlmanns

Researcher in Security and Privacy

RWTH Aachen University

COMSYS

Biography

Since March 2019, I’m a researcher and Ph.D. Student at Klaus Wehrle’s Chair of Communication and Distributed Systems at RWTH Aachen University. Currently, I’m dedicated to scrutinizing the security of industrial deployments, identifying the roots of insecure configurations, and devising mechanisms to improve the level of security. I also research mechanisms for secure communication in the ICT network of critical infrastructures. Before starting my Ph.D. studies, I graduated with an M.Sc. in Computer Science in September 2018 and received my B.Sc. in 2016. During my Bachelor’s and Master’s studies I, amongst others, got in touch with kernel-programming and anonymous communication via Tor.

Interests
  • Industrial Network Security
  • Internet Measurements
  • Security Assessment
  • Privacy
Education
  • M.Sc. in Computer Science, 2018

    RWTH Aachen University

  • B.Sc. in Computer Science, 2016

    RWTH Aachen University

News

2023-07

📰 Our research on the occurrence and impact of leaked secrets in container images got, amongst others, picked up by Bleeping Computer, Golem.de (in German), TechRadar, DarkReading, teiss, itnews, Techzine.nl (in Dutch), and Infopoint Security (in German).

2023-03

📄 Our paper on the occurence and impact of leaked secrets in container images got accepted at ASIACCS 2023.

2021-10

📄 Our paper on untapped TLS support in the (Industrial) Internet of Things got accepted at ASIACCS 2022.

2021-04

📰 I got interviewed about further details on our OPC UA Internet-wide security assessment. The interview is published in das elektohandwerk (in German).

2020-12

📃 I summarized our research results on Internet-reachable OPC UA systems for the APNIC Blog.

2020-11

📰 Martin Henze and I got interviewed about details on our OPC UA Internet measurements. The interview is published on All-Electronics (in German).

2020-10

📰 Our research on Internet-facing OPC UA deployments got picked up by heise online (in German) and All-Electronics (in German).

2020-08

📄 Our paper on privacy-preserving production parameter exchange got accepted at ACSAC 2020.

📄 Our paper on insecure Internet-facing OPC UA deployments got accepted at IMC 2020.

2020-03

💾 We released our OPC UA assessment modules for Metasploit.

2019-07

📄 Our paper on realizing onion routing for constrained IoT devices got accepted at ICNP 2019.

Recent Publications

(2023). Poster: Bridging Trust Gaps: Data Usage Transparency in Federated Data Ecosystems. Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’23), November 26-30, 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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(2023). Evolving the Digital Industrial Infrastructure for Production: Steps Taken and the Road Ahead. Internet of Production: Fundamentals, Applications and Proceedings.

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(2023). Interconnected Grid Protection Systems - Reference Grid For Testing An Adaptive Protection Scheme. Proceedings of the International Conference & Exhibition on Electricity Distribution (CIRED) 2023.

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(2023). Offering Two-Way Privacy for Evolved Purchase Inquiries. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology.

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(2022). A False Sense of Security? Revisiting the State of Machine Learning-Based Industrial Intrusion Detection. Proceedings of the 8th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS ‘22), co-located with the 17th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS ‘22), May 30-June 3, 2022, Nagasaki, Japan.

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Teaching

I am and have been involved in several teaching activities at RWTH Aachen University and I am advising and have (co-)advised several student theses. Please refer to my institute profile for further information.