Thomas Zefferer

Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.

Secure Applications, SIC, A-SIT+

Thomas Zefferer joined IAIK in 2007. He is Senior IT Security Expert at A-SIT Plus, a limited company 100% owned by the non-profit association A-SIT. He holds a PhD degree in Computer Science from Graz University of Technology. Thomas's primary expertise is in security analyses, e-government, and mobile security.
Thomas Zefferer

Research

My research interests include e-government, electronic identification and authentication, electronic signatures, mobile security, and blockchain technology. I contributed to several national and international research projects and activities, including:

  • STORK and STORK 2.0: EU Large Scale Pilots on eID federation
  • eSENS: EU Large Scale Pilot on Building Block consolidation
  • SUNFISH: Horizon 2020 project on the secure federation of governments' private cloud infrastructures
  • FutureTrust: Horizon 2020 project on advancing trust services in the European Union and beyond

Service

  • Programme Committee Member and reviewer of several conferences
  • Reviewer of several journals, including Government Information Quarterly (Elsevier), Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier), and Computers (MDPI)

Publications

Smoothing the Ride: Providing a Seamless Upgrade Path from Established Cross-Border eID Workflows Towards eID Wallet Systems

Czerny R., Kollmann C., Podgorelec B., Prünster B., Zefferer T.
SECRYPT 2023 - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Security and Cryptography, 20th International Conference on Security and Cryptography: SECRYPT 2023, 460-468, (Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography; vol. 1)

A Security-Evaluation Framework for Mobile Cross-Border e-Government Solutions

Zefferer T., Prünster B., Kollmann C., Corici A., Alber L., Czerny R., Podgorelec B.
DGO '23: Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, 536–543, (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series)

Towards a Mobile-First Cross-Border eID Framework

Czerny R., Kollmann C., Podgorelec B., Prünster B., Zefferer T.
Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research - Together in the Unstable World, 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, 526–535, (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series)

Total Eclipse of the Heart – Disrupting the InterPlanetary File System

Prünster B., Marsalek A., Zefferer T.
31st USENIX Security Symposium, 31st USENIX Security Symposium, 3735-3752

E-Government in the Public Cloud: Requirements and Opportunities

Abraham A., Hörandner F., Zefferer T., Zwattendorfer B.
Electronic Government, Vol. 16(3), 260-280

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