Dr. Sebastian Obermeier

Research and Publications

Dissertation

  • Sebastian Obermeier. Database Transaction Management in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks. 2008. ( Electronic Resource)

Refereed Publications

  • Thomas Locher, Sebastian Obermeier, Yvonne-Anne Pignolet: When Can a Distributed Ledger Replace a Trusted Third Party? The 2018 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, Halifax, Canada, 2018.
  • Apala Ray, Vipin Raj, Manuel Oriol, Aurelien Monot, Sebastian Obermeier: Bluetooth Low Energy Devices Security Testing Framework. 2018 IEEE 11th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), Västerås, Sweden, 2018.
  • Irfan Ahmed, Sebastian Obermeier, Sneha Sudhakaran, Vassil Roussev: Programmable Logic Controller Forensics. IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 18-24, November/December 2017.
  • Roman Schlegel, Sebastian Obermeier, Johannes Schneider: A Security Evaluation of IEC 62351. Journal of Information Security and Applications, Volume 34, Part 2, pp. 197-204, June 2017.
  • Johannes Schneider, Bin Lu, Thomas Locher, Yvonne Anne Pignolet, Matus Harvan, Sebastian Obermeier: Subdomain and Access Pattern Privacy - Trading off Confidentiality and Performance. 13th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2016), ICETE 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2016.
  • Alexandru Vlad Serbanescu, Sebastian Obermeier, Der-Yeuan Yu: A Scalable Honeynet Architecture for Industrial Control Systems. E-Business and Telecommunications: 12th International Joint Conference, ICETE 2015, Colmar, France, July 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing 2016.
  • Alexandru Vlad Serbanescu, Sebastian Obermeier, Der-Yeuan Yu: ICS Threat Analysis Using a Large-Scale Honeynet. 3rd International Symposium for ICS & SCADA Cyber Security Research 2015 (ICS-CSR), Ingolstadt, Germany, September 2015.
  • Johannes Schneider, Sebastian Obermeier, Roman Schlegel: Cyber Security Maintenance for SCADA Systems. 3rd International Symposium for ICS & SCADA Cyber Security Research 2015 (ICS-CSR), Ingolstadt, Germany, September 2015.
  • Roman Schlegel, Sebastian Obermeier, Johannes Schneider: Assessing the Security of IEC 62351. 3rd International Symposium for ICS & SCADA Cyber Security Research 2015 (ICS-CSR), Ingolstadt, Germany, September 2015.
  • Alexandru Vlad Serbanescu, Sebastian Obermeier, Der-Yeuan Yu: A Flexible Architecture for Industrial Control System Honeypots. 12th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2015), Colmar, France, July 2015.
  • Roman Schlegel, Ana Hristova, Sebastian Obermeier: A Framework for Incident Response in Industrial Control Systems. 12th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2015), Colmar, France, July 2015.
  • Roman Schlegel, Sebastian Obermeier, Johannes Schneider: Structured System Threat Modeling and Mitigation Analysis for Industrial Automation Systems. 13th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN). Cambridge, UK, July 2015.
  • Sebastian Obermeier, Michael Wahler, Thanikesavan Sivanthi, Roman Schlegel, Aurelien Monot: Automatic Attack Surface Reduction in Next-Generation Industrial Control Systems. 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (SSCI-CICS). Orlando, Florida, USA, December 2014.
  • Sebastian Obermeier, Ragnar Schierholz, Ana Hristova: Securing Industrial Automation and Control Systems Using Application Whitelisting. The 19th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'2014). Barcelona, Spain, September 2014.
  • Robin Chapas, Ana Hristova, Thomas Locher, Sebastian Obermeier: Securing Industrial Control Systems through Autonomous Hardening. 2nd International Symposium for ICS & SCADA Cyber Security Research 2014 (ICS-CSR 2014). St Pölten, Austria, September 2014.
  • Roman Schlegel, Sebastian Obermeier, Ana Hristova: Security Assessment Methodology for Industrial Control System Products. IEEE 4th Annual International Conference on Cyber Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (CYBER 2014). Hong Kong, June 2014.
  • Ana Hristova, Sebastian Obermeier, Roman Schlegel: Secure Design of Engineering Software Tools in Industrial Automation and Control Systems. 11th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN). Bochum, Germany, July 2013.
  • Irfan Ahmed, Sebastian Obermeier, Martin Naedele, Golden Richard III: SCADA systems: Challenges for forensic investigators. IEEE Computer, Vol. 99, Number 12, 2012.
  • Sebastian Obermeier, Ragnar Schierholz, Hadeli Hadeli, Robert R. Enderlein, Ana Hristova, Thomas Locher: Secure Management of Certificates for Industrial Control Systems. The 2012 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'12). Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 2012.
  • Sebastian Obermeier, Ragnar Schierholz, Hadeli Hadel: Application Whitelisting for Industrial Control Systems - An Evaluation. SCADA Security Scientific Symposium (S4). Miami Beach, Florida, USA, January 2012.
  • Sebastian Obermeier, Stefan Böttcher: Protecting a Distributed Voting Schema for Anonymous and Secure Voting Against Attacks of Malicious Partners. In: International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications, 3(3), 31-48, July-September 2011.
  • Sebastian Obermeier, Stefan Böttcher: Distributed, Anonymous, and Secure Voting among Malicious Partners without a Trusted Third Party. 4th International Conference on Methodologies, Technologies and Tools enabling e-Government (MeTTeG10). Olten, Switzerland, July 2010.
  • Sebastian Obermeier, Stefan Böttcher: Constraint Checking for Non-blocking Transaction Processing in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks. 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS). Funchal, Portugal, June 2010.
  • Sebastian Obermeier, Stefan Böttcher: A DBMS for Mobile Transactions Using Bi-State-Termination. International Journal of Database Management Systems ( IJDMS ), Volume 2, Number 2, May 2010. Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC). DOI: 10.5121/ijdms.2010.2209.
  • Hadeli Hadeli, Ragnar Schierholz, Markus Braendle, Cristian Tuduce, Sebastian Obermeier: Leveraging Determinism in Industrial Control Systems for Advanced Anomaly Detection and Reliable Security Configuration. S4: SCADA Security Scientific Symposium. Miami, USA, January 2010.
  • Sebastian Obermeier, Stefan Böttcher, Dominik Kleine: A Cross-Layer Atomic Commit Protocol Implementation for Transaction Processing in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks. Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD) Journal, Volume 26, Numbers 2-3 / December, 2009. Springer Netherlands. DOI: 10.1007/s10619-009-7051-x.
  • Friedrich Köster, Michael Klaas, Hanh Quyen Nguyen, Walter Brenner, Markus Brändle, Sebastian Obermeier: Collaborative Security Assessments in Embedded Systems Development - The ESSAF Framework for Structured Qualitative Analysis. International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT), Milan, Italy, 2009.
  • Hanh Quyen Nguyen, Friedrich Köster, Michael Klaas, Walter Brenner, Sebastian Obermeier, Markus Brändle: Tool Support for Achieving Qualitative Security Assessments of Critical Infrastructures - The ESSAF Framework for Structured Qualitative Analysis. International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT), Milan, Italy, 2009.
  • Sebastian Obermeier, Stefan Böttcher, Martin Hett, Panos K. Chrysanthis, George Samaras: Blocking Reduction for Distributed Transaction Processing Within MANETs. Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD) Journal, Volume 25, Number 3 / June 2009. Springer Netherlands. DOI: 10.1007/s10619-009-7033-z
  • Friedrich Köster, Hanh Quyen Nguyen, Markus Brändle, Sebastian Obermeier, Michael Klaas, Walter Brenner: Collaboration in Security Assessments for Critical Infrastructures. Fourth International CRIS Conference on Critical Infrastructures (CRIS 2009), Linköping, Sweden, April 2009.
  • Friedrich Köster, Hanh Quyen Nguyen, Sebastian Obermeier, Markus Brändle, Michael Klaas, Walter Brenner, Martin Naedele: Information Security Assessments for Embedded Systems Development - An Evaluation of Methods. 8th Annual Security Conference, Las Vegas, NV, USA, April 2009.
  • Sebastian Obermeier, Stefan Böttcher, Dominik Kleine: CLCP - A Distributed Cross-Layer Commit Protocol for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks. The 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 08), Sydney, Australia, December 2008.
  • Stefan Böttcher, Sebastian Obermeier: Intersection Computation within Malicious Environments. In: Joaquim Filipe and Mohammad S. Obaidat (Eds.): E-Business and Telecommunications, ICETE 2007, Barcelona, Spain, July 28-31, 2007, Revised Selected Papers, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, November 2008.
  • Sebastian Obermeier, Stefan Böttcher: XML Fragment Caching for Large-Scale Mobile Commerce Applications. Tenth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2008), Innsbruck, Austria, August 2008.
  • Sebastian Obermeier, Stefan Böttcher, Martin Hett, Panos K. Chrysanthis, George Samaras: Adjourn State Concurrency Control Avoiding Time-Out Problems in Atomic Commit Protocols (Poster). IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Cancun, Mexico, April 2008.
  • Stefan Böttcher, Sebastian Obermeier: Secure Set Union and Bag Union Computation for Guaranteeing Anonymity of Distrustful Participants. Journal of Software, Vol. 3, Issue 1, 2008.
  • Stefan Böttcher, Sebastian Obermeier, Adelhard Türling, Jan Henrik Wiesner: Segmentation-Based Caching for Mobile Auctions. Technology and Applications of Mobile Commerce (TAMOCO 2008), Glasgow, Great Britain, January 2008.
  • Sebastian Obermeier, Stefan Böttcher: Avoiding Infinite Blocking of Mobile Transactions. The 11th International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS 2007), Banff, Canada, September 2007.
  • Sebastian Obermeier, Stefan Böttcher, Thomas Wycisk: XPath Selectivity Estimation for a Mobile Auction Application. The 11th International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS 2007), Banff, Canada, September 2007.
  • Sebastian Obermeier, Stefan Böttcher: Secure Computation of Common Data among Malicious Partners. International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2007), Barcelona, Spain, July 2007. Best Paper Award.
  • Stefan Böttcher, Sebastian Obermeier, Thomas Wycisk: XML Query Result Size Estimation for Small Bandwidth Devices (Poster). British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD 2007), Glasgow, Great Britain, July 2007.
  • Stefan Böttcher, Sebastian Obermeier: Dynamic Commit Tree Management for Service Oriented Architectures. 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2007), Funchal, Portugal, June 2007.
  • Stefan Böttcher, Le Gruenwald, Sebastian Obermeier: A Failure Tolerating Atomic Commit Protocol for Mobile Environments. The 8th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2007), Mannheim, Germany, May 2007.
  • Stefan Böttcher, Sebastian Obermeier: Secure Anonymous Union Computation Among Malicious Partners. The Second International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2007), Vienna, Austria, April 2007.
  • Stefan Böttcher, Sebastian Obermeier: Sovereign Information Sharing Among Malicious Partners. 3rd International Workshop on Secure Data Management 2006 (SDM 2006) at VLDB 2006, Seoul, Korea, September 2006.
  • Stefan Böttcher, Le Gruenwald, Sebastian Obermeier: Reducing Sub-Transaction Aborts and Blocking Time Within Atomic Commit Protocols. British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD 2006), Belfast, Great Britain, July, 2006.
  • Stefan Böttcher, Le Gruenwald, Sebastian Obermeier: An Atomic Web-Service Transaction Protocol for Mobile Environments. EDBT-Workshop Privacy Information Management (PIM2006), Munich, Germany, March 2006.
  • Joos-Hendrik Böse, Stefan Böttcher, Le Gruenwald, Sebastian Obermeier, Heinz Schweppe, Thorsten Steenweg: An Integrated Commit Protocol for Mobile Network Databases. The 9th International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS 2005), Montreal, Canada, July 2005.
  • Joos-Hendrik Böse, Stefan Böttcher, Sebastian Obermeier, Heinz Schweppe, Thorsten Steenweg: Atomicity in Mobile Networks. BTW-Workshop Mobile Datenbanken - heute, morgen und in 20 Jahren. Karlsruhe, Germany, February 2005.
  • Christian Schindelhauer, Stefan Böttcher, Franz J. Rammig, Peter Bleckmann, Eduardas Cesnavicius, Andre Francisco, Tim Daniel Hollerung, Birger Kuhnel, Jing Liu, Sebastian Obermeier, Simon Oberthür, Felix Peter, Gunnar Schomaker, Thorsten Steenweg, Qamar Abas Tarar, Marcel Tiemeyer, Adelhard Türling, Arne Vater: The Design of PAMANET the Paderborn Mobile Ad-hoc Network (Extended Abstract/Poster). ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access. Philadelphia, USA, September/October 2004.

Refereed Conference Presentations

  • Sebastian Obermeier, Hadeli Hadeli, Ragnar Schierholz, Robert Enderlein: Certificate Management for Embedded Industrial Systems. Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group (ICSJWG) Fall Conference, Idaho Falls, USA, November 2009.

Non-Refereed Publications

  • Sebastian Obermeier, Sascha Stoeter, Ragnar Schierholz, Markus Braendle: Cyber Security - Protecting critical infrastructure in a changing world. ABB Review 3/2012.
  • Joos-Hendrik Böse, Stefan Böttcher, Panos Kypros Chrysanthis, Alex Delis, Le Gruenwald, Anirban Mondal, Sebastian Obermeier, Aris Ouksel, George Samaras, Stratis Viglas: 06431 Working Group Summary: Atomicity in Mobile Networks. In: Stefan Böttcher, Le Gruenwald, Pedro Jose Marron, Evaggelia Pitoura: Scalable Data Management in Evolving Networks, Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Dagstuhl, Germany, 2007.
  • Peter A. Boncz, Angela Bonifati, Joos-Hendrik Böse, Stefan Böttcher, Panos Kypros Chrysanthis, Le Gruenwald, Arantza Illarramendi, Peter Janacik, Birgitta König-Ries, Wolfgang May, Anirban Mondal, Sebastian Obermeier, Aris Ouksel, George Samaras: 06431 Working Group Summary: P2P, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks - All the Different or All the Same? In: Stefan Böttcher, Le Gruenwald, Pedro Jose Marron, Evaggelia Pitoura: Scalable Data Management in Evolving Networks, Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Dagstuhl, Germany, 2007.