Short Biography

I studied applied computer science at the DHBW Stuttgart Campus Horb (2015-2018) and the University Heidelberg (2020-2022). During my masters, I focused on cybersecurity with a master's thesis on "Honeypot Implementation in a Cloud environment". Additionally, I worked as a research assistent at bwInfoSec, where I have been a permanent team member since April 2022.

Research Interests

• Cybersecurity
• Deep Packet Inspection
• Machine Learning

Projects

In Preparation

Teaching

At University Heidelberg

Supervisor of BA theses (2022):

• Using Deep Packet Inspection to Analyse and Reduce DDoS Attacks on Servers and Applications
• Functionality and limitation of DPI circumvention software
• Analysing schemes for secure and memorable password generation
• Flow-based Traffic Classification Using Deep Vision

Supervisor of BA theses (2023)

• Analyzing the BrakTooth family of experimental attacks on specific Bluetooth chipsets

Supervisor of MA theses (2022):

•  Adding Interpretability to an Anomaly-Based Method for Deep Packet Inspection in Intrusion Detection Systems

Supervisor of MA theses (2023):

• Implementing an exploit as a Metasploit module and investigating the exploit ranking
  mechanism
• Schutz-Prinzipien für Softwarearchitekturen mit erhöhtem Schutzbedarf

Publications

• M. Schroeder, S. Machmeier, V. Heuveline (2023). Vtable hijacking: Object Type Integrity for run-time type information.Preprint Series of the EMCL.
• Machmeier, S. (2023). Honeypot Implementation in a Cloud Environment. arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.00710.

Conference Contributions and Talks

• In Preparation