Assistant Professor for IT Security
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Böhme M.A.
Short Bio
| 1998-2003 | Studies of Communications, Economics and Computer Science at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany and Université Paris XII, France |  |
| 2003-2005 2007-2009 |
Scientific Staff at the Chair of Privacy and Data Security (Prof. Dr. Andreas Pfitzmann), Technische Universität Dresden | |
| 2005-2007 | Research Analyst at the European Central Bank, Directorate General Economics, Frankfurt/M. | |
| 2008 | Doctoral Degree from TU Dresden's Faculty of Computer Science | |
| 2009-2010 | Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, California |
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| Sep 2010 | Assistant Professor at the University of Münster, Germany, Department of Information Systems | |
Research Interests
- Economics of information security, in particular security investment, cyber-risk management, cyber-insurance
- Steganography and steganalysis
- Digital forensics, in particular image forensics
- Privacy-enhancing technologies (PET), in particular protocols and privacy metrics
- Economic and behavioral aspects of information privacy
- Security and usability
Publications
see my list of publications
Selected Invited Talks
- Personal Data Disclosure as a Call Option: From Financial Mathematics to Privacy Measurement, Center for Research on Computation and Society, Harvard University, November 2009
- Towards Insurable Network Architectures, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, November 2009
- Data Retention - A Threat to Online Anonymity? Theory and Empirical Facts, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University, February 2010
- Security Metrics and Security Investment Models, IWSEC 2010, Kobe, Japan, November 2010
Digital Identity
For confidential communication, please encrypt your messages with my PGP/GPG public key. Note that I may not be able to respond immediately to confidential communication whenever I work in untrusted environments.
The fingerprint of my public key is:
1C1F E7E6 039B DA1B E630 1A15 99D0 738A 70DF 7A85
I do not assume any legal liability for documents signed with this key.
Consulting
I occasionally accept consulting jobs, which must fulfill the following criteria:
- the job is compatible with my obligations as civil servant in Germany,
- the contract partner is a reputable organization,
- the job is remunerated at market rates,
- I do not sign NDAs without very good reasons, and they must be specific and contain a sunset provision.
Please consider funding my research group or serving as industry partner in a project seminar with highly motivated students as viable alternatives to a consulting contract.
