Trusted Systems
The Trusted Systems Research Group at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security focuses on system security with a strong focus on mobile platforms. This includes hardware-based security and the intersection with usable security.
Sven Bugiel
Faculty
Eric Ackermann
PhD Student
Yusra Elbitar
PhD Student
Alfusainey Jallow
PhD Student
Noah Mauthe
PhD Student
HTMA Riyadh
PhD Student
Alumni
Dhiman Chakraborty
Automotive Security Analyst (Research & Development) at Volkswagen
Abdallah Dawoud
Applied Security Scientist at ABB
Recent Publications
(2025).
Stack Overflow Meets Replication: Security Research Amid Evolving Code Snippets.
34th USENIX Security Symposium (SEC ‘25).
(2025).
Permission Rationales in the Web Ecosystem: An Exploration of Rationale Text and Design Patterns.
ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘25). Best paper award.
(2025).
The Power of Words: A Comprehensive Analysis of Rationales and Their Effects on Users’ Permission Decisions.
32nd Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS ‘25).
(2024).
Work-in-Progress: Northcape: Embedded Real-Time Capability-Based Addressing.
IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops.
(2024).
Measuring the Effects of Stack Overflow Code Snippet Evolution on Open-Source Software Security.
45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP'24).