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The people who go deep on the problems that matter, from network, software to hardware and cloud-native systems. If it's a genuinely hard problem, we're in our element.
Dr. Felix Klement
Founder and CEO
Dr. Florian Frank
Founder and CTO
Alexander Braml
Software Engineer
Erik Foris
Network & Infrastructure Engineer
Marc Schlotzhauer
Business Development
Philipp Mayr
Software Engineer
Karin Kaufmann
Mathematical Engineer
Valentin Hirte
Process Optimization & Automation
Publishedresearch.
Expert perspectives on Open RAN security, cloud-native infrastructure, and hardware security, grounded in real-world engineering and backed by research.
- 2022
Open or not open: Are conventional radio access networks more secure and trustworthy than Open-RAN?
arXiv preprint
- 2023
Toward Securing the 6G Transition: A Comprehensive Empirical Method to Analyze Threats in O-RAN Environments
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
- 2024
Securing the Open RAN Infrastructure: Exploring Vulnerabilities in Kubernetes Deployments
2024 IEEE 10th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft)
- 2023
A security process for the automotive service-oriented software architecture
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
- 2023
Spatial correlation in weak physical unclonable functions: A comprehensive overview
2023 26th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD)
- 2022
Man-in-the-OBD: A modular, protocol agnostic firewall for automotive dongles to enhance privacy and security
International Workshop on Attacks and Defenses for Internet-of-Things
- 2025
Endless subscriptions: open RAN is open to RIC E2 subscription denial of service attacks
2025 IEEE 10th European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P)
- 2022
Using Memristor Arrays as Physical Unclonable Functions
ESORICS 2022 European Symposium on Research in Computer Security
- 2025
Segmentation and Filtering Are Still the Gold Standard for Privacy in IoT—An In-Depth STRIDE and LINDDUN Analysis of Smart Homes
Future Internet
- 2023
CNT-PUFs: Highly Robust and Heat-Tolerant Carbon-Nanotube-Based Physical Unclonable Functions
2023 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Nanotechnology (NANO)
- 2022
Testing physical unclonable functions implemented on commercial off-the-shelf NAND flash memories using programming disturbances
2022 IEEE 12th International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE-Berlin)
- 2023
Abusing commodity DRAMs in IoT devices to remotely spy on temperature
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
- 2022
Change Your Car's Filters: Efficient Concurrent and Multi-Stage Firewall for OBD-II Network Traffic
2022 IEEE 27th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD)
- 2024
Investigation of Commercial Off-The-Shelf ReRAM Modules for Use as Runtime-Accessible TRNG
2024 27th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD)
- 2024
Secure Data-Binding in FPGA-based Hardware Architectures utilizing PUFs
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security
- 2023
Ensuring trustworthy automated road vehicles: A software integrity validation approach
2023 IEEE International Automated Vehicle Validation Conference (IAVVC)
- 2023
One standard to rule them all? Assessing the disruptive potential of jamming attacks on Matter networks
2023 IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS)
- 2025
Toward Securing the 6G Transition: A Comprehensive Empirical Method to Analyze Threats in O-RAN Environments
MDPI
- 2023
CNT-PUFs: highly robust and heat-tolerant carbon-nanotube-based physical unclonable functions
Nanomaterials
- 2023
Unveiling the shadows: An approach towards detection, precise localization, and effective isolation of concealed IoT devices in unfamiliar environments
Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society
- 2026
Form Without Function: Agent Social Behavior in the Moltbook Network
arXiv preprint
- 2023
Private and secure over-the-air multi-party communication
2023 57th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers
- 2022
Secure Communication via Chaotic Cryptography
34th Crypto Day
- 2021
Fuzzy Extractors using Low-Density Parity-Check Codes
33rd Crypto Day
- 2026
ORCA - An Automated Threat Analysis Pipeline for O-RAN Continuous Development
arXiv preprint
- 2023
Keep your Enemies closer: On the minimal Distance of Adversaries when using Channel-based Key Extraction in SISO 6G Systems
2023 19th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob)
- 2023
Real-World Chaos-Based Cryptography Using Synchronised Chua Chaotic Circuits
TechRxiv
- 2023
Secure Stitch: Unveiling the Fabric of Security Patterns for the Internet of Things
International Workshop on Security and Trust Management
- 2026
A reconfigurable hardware infrastructure for evaluating PUFs in non-volatile memories
HardwareX
- 2025
Towards Deterministic DDS Communication for Secure Service-Oriented Software-Defined Vehicles
International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security
- 2022
A Dedicated Mixed-Signal Characterisation and Testing Framework for Novel Digital Security Circuits That Use Carbon-Nanotube-Based Physical Unclonable Functions
International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST)
- 2022
On the sustainability of lightweight cryptography based on PUFs implemented on NAND Flash memories using programming disturbances
arXiv preprint
- 2026
6G Research and Innovation Cluster (6G-RIC)-Offene und sichere 6G-Technologien: Weltmarktchance für Deutschland
Hannover: Technische Informationsbibliothek
- 2026
O-RAN Security: From Standardization and Threat Modeling to Practical Security Testing
IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
- 2024
Safety & Security Co-Engineering in Autonomous Driving and Future Mobility Systems
autotech. agil
- 2024
Securing Next Generation Service-Oriented Vehicle Architectures
autotech. agil
- 2024
Threat Analysis of the autotech. agil Cooperative Intelligent Transport System Ecosystem
autotech. agil