Team Member: Tobias Appel

Research Interests

• IT Security Operations (SIEM / IDS)
• Automated Penetration Testing
• Vulnerability Management
• Machine Learning
• Gamification

Certificates

• GIAC Exploit Researcher and Advanced Penetration Tester (GXPN)
• ISMS Security Officer according to ISO/IEC 27001:2013
• ICO ITSec Penetration Tester
• Foundation in Information Security Management Systems according to ISO/IEC 27001
• Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management according to ISO/IEC 20000:2005
• Splunk Certified User
• IBM Security QRadar SIEM 7.2 Administration and Configuration

Teaching

• Reiser, H., IT-Sicherheit - Sicherheit vernetzter Systeme, WS20/21
• Reiser, H., IT-Sicherheit - Sicherheit vernetzter Systeme, WS19/20
• Reiser, H., IT-Sicherheit - Sicherheit vernetzter Systeme, WS18/19
• Kranzlmüller, D., Hegering, H.-G.(em.), Höb, M., Haupt-und Proseminar virtualisierte Systeme, SS18
• Kranzlmüller, D., Hegering, H.-G.(em.), gentschen Felde, N., Hauptseminar Data Science and Ethics, WS16/17

Presentations

• Automated Success Verification of Exploits for Penetration Testing with Metasploit, November 11th 2020, 3rd Place at CODE 2020, Munich
• Monitoring of a Large-Scale University Network, February 2nd 2020, FOSDEM 2020, Brussels
• Pushing Suricata Towards 80Gbit/s and More (Video), October 30th 2019, Suricon 2019, Amsterdam

Student Work

Publications

• Appel, T., Hantke, S., Hausner, C., Olenyi, T., Schuller, B., Large-scale Data Collection and Analysis via a Gamified Intelligent Crowdsourcing Platform, International Journal of Automation and Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2019, Springer, Juni, 2019.
• Hantke, S., Appel, T., Schuller, B., The Inclusion of Gamification Solutions to Enhance User Enjoyment on Crowdsourcing Platforms, In Proceedings of the 1st Asian Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII Asia 2018), 6 pages, AAAC, IEEE, Beijing, P. R. China, September, 2018.
• Hantke, S., Appel, T., Eyben, F., Schuller, B., iHEARU-PLAY: Introducing a game for crowdsourced data collection for affective computing, In 1st International Workshop on Automatic Sentiment Analysis in the Wild (WASA 2015), satellite of the 6th biannual Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2015), 891-897, AAAC, IEEE, Xian, P.R. China, September, 2015.