Bernd Prünster

Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. BSc

Secure Applications, Senior Staff - A-SIT Plus

Bernd Prünster received his PhD degree in computer science from Graz University of Technology in 2021 (with distinction) and a master's degree in computer science from Graz University of Technology (with distinction) in 2016. He joined IAIK in the same year. During his bachelor and master studies he was involved in EU-funded research projects at the Cognitive Science Section. He currently works as Senior IT Security Expert at A-SIT Plus, a limited company 100% owned by the non-profit association A-SIT.

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Research

My main research interest during my PhD studies lied in security and trust management in decentralised systems in the context of peer-to-peer and cloud environments. I focused on usable security and explore ways to enhance the security properties of connected services by harnessing the joint capabilities of different device classes.

I am/was involved in the following research projects:

mGov4EU – Mobile Cross-Border Government Services for Europe EU H2020-SC6-GOVERNANCE-2020 (2021-2032)
SEMPER – Cross-border Semantic Interoperability of Powers and Mandates EU CEF-TC-2018-1 (2019-2020)
SUNFISH – SecUre iNFormatIon SHaring in federated heterogeneous private clouds EU H2020-ICT-2014-1 (2015-2017)
weSPOT – Working Environment with Social and Personal Open Tools for inquiry based learning EU FP7-ICT-2011-8 (2012-2015)
ROLE – Responsive Open Learning Environments EU FP7-ICT-2007-3 (2009-2013)

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

AndroTIME: Identifying Timing Side Channels in the Android API

Palfinger G., Prünster B., Ziegler D.
Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 19th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2020, 19th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, 1849-1856

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