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 | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility of modern (Multi-Factor) Authentication methods | Erwin Kupris | Seminar Paper |
| GNAP - Can it replace OAuth2.0 and OpenID Connect? Current state and future research avenues | Erwin Kupris | Seminar Paper |
| eduID - How could the German educational ID look like and what are future research avenues? | Erwin Kupris | Seminar Paper |
| eIDAS 2.0 is here - How does is affect the digital identity space? | Erwin Kupris | Seminar Paper |
| Implementing FedCM into the Shibboleth IdP (Primary Research, only for advanced Java and Spring coders) | Erwin Kupris | Seminar Paper |
| FedCM - Why do we need it, what's the current state, and where do we go from there? | Erwin Kupris | Seminar Paper |
| Federated Identity Management - State of Knowledge and Future Research Avenues | Erwin Kupris | Seminar Paper |
| Digital Identity Guidelines - NIST, eIDAS, KYC, PSD3, etc. How do they all fit together? | Erwin Kupris | Seminar Paper |
| OpenID Federation for Research and Education - Designing trust topologies and finding future research avenues | Erwin Kupris | Seminar Paper |
| OpenID is more than just Connect. What are they up to and how does it all fit together? | Erwin Kupris | Seminar Paper |
| Translating SAML2.0 metadata to OpenID Federation Configs - Implementing an interactive tool | Erwin Kupris | Seminar Paper |
| Self-Sovereign Identity vs. Federated Identity Management | Erwin Kupris | Seminar Paper |
| State of Knowledge of the European Digital Identity Wallet and Self-Sovereign Identity | Erwin Kupris | Seminar Paper |
| Scanning TLS in eduGAIN - How well do academic institutions secure web communication? (Primary Research) | Erwin Kupris | Seminar Paper |
| Benchmarking, Eliciting, and Enhancing Abilities of Large Language Models in Cyber Threat Intelligence | Marleen Steinhoff | Seminar Paper |
| Application of Knowledge Graph Mining Methods to STIX data | Marleen Steinhoff | Seminar Paper |
| Efficient querying of Cyber Threat Intelligence knowledge graphs | Marleen Steinhoff | Seminar Paper |
| State of Knowledge of Large Language Models for information extraction tasks | Marleen Steinhoff | Seminar Paper |
| Artificial intelligence for querying Cyber Threat Intelligence (Literature Review) | Marleen Steinhoff | Seminar Paper |
| Computing semantic similarity of knowledge graphs for Cyber Threat Intelligence | Marleen Steinhoff | Seminar Paper |