Here are some more questions that my daughter, not even six years old, asked me recently: Why is it night in Cambodia and daytime where we live? Why does the earth rotate? Why do people visit a hospital to get children? What happens when we die and will we be born again? Why do we […]
Recently, I brought my daugthers to a project meeting. They do not attend school yet, and are at an age where they ask a lot of questions. „Why is there just one woman in the room? Will there come more women later?“ were questions to which I did not have a good answer. Out of eighteen […]
I recorded almost 2,000 hours of work last year. Ideally, I would have spent twice as much time doing research as I did teaching, and twice as much time teaching as I did administrative tasks. Here is what really happened. Research accounted for 58% of my time in the best case. 33% were organisation of […]
I browsed study programmes and offerings for student exchanges in information security recently. One of the partner institutions I recommend as an option for students in the bachelor in information security is Brno University of Technology in Czech Republic. They are well prepared for international students using Erasmus and display an impressive table of courses […]
For the SKYLINE project, I had created several accounts with IaaS cloud service providers. They would all bill based on the amount of resources consumed, so having the account dormant after completion of the project should have been no big deal. A year later, I got three emails from OpSource on the same day: Credit Card […]
I was in Stavanger this week, combining a lot of activities. Monday was for meetings. We had the steering committee for the Norwegian network-based COINS Research School of Computer and Information Security, followed by a meeting in the standing committee of the Forum for Research and Innovation in Security and Communications. In the afternoon, I […]
My garden-facing veranda had not received attention in several years, so I decided to paint parts of it this summer. The difference is noticeable. It is not so much the visual appearance, the freshly painted parts do not look much different from the older parts. It is its reaction to rain that fascinates me. Where […]
For 48 hours this week, around 50 students from HiG formed a team to compete with 707 teams from all over the world in a contest in applied information security (hack.lu CTF). The goal of this “Capture the flag” competition in information security was to solve several practical information security challenges, comprising web application vulnerabilities, […]
Earlier this year, I supervised a group of students on their bachelor thesis. They developed a key logger to advance research in behavioural biometrics. Now they won the Eureka prize for best bachelor thesis at HiG. Congratulations, Magnus, Robin and Lasse!
I attended MyPhD last week to explore their concept of Ph.D. student workshops and to learn from their experience. MyPhD is an informal network of professors and Ph.D. students in applied IT security in Germany. There is no legal entity for the network and collaboration happens because of a common will to bring together students […]