Project Seminar

About the Project Seminar

In this seminar, students are tasked with crafting a scholarly paper on a current topic within IT security. Through lectures, discussions, and individual guidance, they'll learn to identify pertinent research gaps, employ data collection and analysis methods, and articulate their findings in a coherent academic format.

Recommendation

Due to the limited length of the semester, we recommend secondary research such as a systematic literature review.
Previous semesters have demonstrated that the project seminar serves as a valuable precursor to the subsequent master's thesis. For instance, you can empirically investigate research gaps identified during the project seminar in your master's thesis.

Procedure, form and evaluation

Details about the evaluation criteria for papers are available here.

Topics

Topics may encompass anything related to current IT security challenges.
If you are interested in one of our thesis topics, conducting secondary research about this topic is a great means of getting familiar with the topic and identifying avenues for future research.
In addition, this page gives suggestions for project seminar topics related to the seclab's research areas.
You can always come up with your own ideas. Just keep in mind that the semester is short and primary research usually takes longer.

Title	Advisor
Inclusive Security -- How Accessible Are Modern (Multi-Factor) Authentication Methods?	Erwin Kupris
Proving Age in the Digital Era -- A Systematic Evaluation through Privacy and Security Lenses	Erwin Kupris
OpenID Federation for Research and Education -- Mapping the Trust Landscape	Erwin Kupris
Measuring OpenID Federation Adoption -- Scanning Implementations via the Well-Known Endpoint (Primary Research)	Erwin Kupris
Measuring Passkeys Adoption -- Scanning Implementations via the Well-Known Endpoint (Primary Research)	Erwin Kupris
Scanning TLS in eduGAIN -- How well do Academic Institutions Secure Web Communication? (Primary Research)	Erwin Kupris