Sebastian Abt

Sebastian Abt, M.Sc.

Position: PhD student (former member)

Research interests

• Communication systems‘ and Internet security
• Anomaly, especially botnet, detection and mitigation
• Data sets in cyber security research
• Cloud computing and cloud security

Activities/Memberships

• Chair of the competence group „infrastructure security“ of the eco – Association of the German Internet Industry.
• Member of the DIN NA 043-01-37 AA – Biometrics.
• Member of the ACM – Association for Computing Machinery.
• Member of the GI – Gesellschaft für Informatik.

Publications

1. Sebastian Abt, Harald Baier: A Research Process that Ensures Reproducible Network Security Research. In Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2015), Barcelona, November 2015.
2. Sebastian Abt, Harald Baier: Towards Reproducible Cyber-Security Research Through Complex Node Automation. In Proceedings of IFIP NTMS 2015 Workshop on Reproducibility of Computation Based Research: Languages, Standards, Methodologies and Platforms (RCBR 2015). Paris, July 2015.
3. Sebastian Abt, Harald Baier: A Plea for Utilising Synthetic Data when Performing Machine Learning Based Cyber-Security Experiments. In Proceedings of the 2014 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security (AISec 2014), Scottsdale/AZ, November 2014.
4. Lisa Schehlmann, Sebastian Abt, Harald Baier: Blessing or Curse? Revisiting Security Aspects of Software-Defined Networking. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2014), Rio de Janeiro, November 2014.
5. Sebastian Abt, Harald Baier: Are We Missing Labels? A Study of the Availability of Ground-Truth in Network Security Research. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Building Analysis Datasets and Gathering Experience Returns for Security (BADGERS 2014), Wroclaw, September 2014. (pdf)
6. Sebastian Abt, Sebastian Gärtner, Harald Baier: A Small Data Approach to Identification of Individuals on the Transport Layer using Statistical Behaviour Templates. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2014), Glasgow, September 2014.
7. Sebastian Abt, Sascha Wener, Harald Baier: Performance Evaluation of Classification and Feature Selection Algorithms for NetFlow-based Protocol Recognition. In Proceedings of GI IFNORMATIK 2013 Workshop on Network-based Anomaly Detection (NAD), Koblenz, September 2013.
8. Jessica Steinberger, Sebastian Abt, Harald Baier: CADEMI – Cooperative Anomaly Detection and Mitigation. In Proceedings of D-A-CH Security 2013, Nürnberg, September 2013
9. Sebastian Abt, Christian Dietz, Harald Baier, Slobodan Petrovic: Passive Remote Source NAT Detection using Behaviour Statistics Derived from NetFlow. In Proceedings of  7th International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS),  Barcelona, June 2013
10. Jessica Steinberger, Lisa Schehlmann, Sebastian Abt, Harald Baier: Anomaly detection and mitigation at Internet scale: A survey. In Proceedings of  7th International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS),  Barcelona, June 2013
11. Denise Muth, Sebastian Abt, Andreas Bunten: Generischer Ablauf von Serversystemeinbrüchen. In Proceedings of Sicherheit in vernetzten Systemen: 20. DFN-Workshop, DFN-Cert Services GmbH, Hamburg, February 2013.
12. Sebastian Abt, Harald Baier: A darknet-driven approach to compilation of hostile network traffic samples. In Proceedings of Sicherheit in vernetzten Systemen: 20. DFN-Workshop, DFN-Cert Services GmbH, Hamburg, February 2013.
13. Sebastian Abt, Harald Baier: Towards Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Network-Based Botnet Detection Using Network Flow Data. 9th International Network Conference (INC2012), Port Elizabeth (South Africa), July 2012.
14. Sebastian Abt, Christoph Busch, Harald Baier: A quality score honoring approach to semantic conformance assessment of minutiae-based feature extractors. Proceedings of the BIOSIG 2011 conference, LNI, p.21-33, 2011.
15. Christoph Busch, Ulrike Korte, Sebastian Abt, Christian Böhm, Ines Färber, Sergej Fries, Johannes Merkle, Claudia Nickel, Alexander Nouak, Alexander Opel, Annahita Oswald, Thomas Seidl, Bianca Wackersreuther, Peter Wackersreuther, Xuebing Zhou: Biometric Template Protection. Datenschutz und Datensicherheit (DUD).
16. Sebastian Abt, Christoph Busch, Claudia Nickel: Applikation des DBSCAN Clustering-Verfahrens zur Generierung von Ground-Truth Fingerabdruck-Minutien. Biometrie und elektronische Signaturen (BIOSIG 2010).
17. Christoph Busch, Sebastian Abt, Claudia Nickel, Ulrike Korte, Xuebing Zhou: Biometrische Template-Protection-Verfahren und Interoperabilitätsstrategien. GI Sicherheit 2010.