Univ.-Prof. Priv. Doz.
Dimitrios Simos, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Joint Professor Cybersecurity
Department Information Technologies and Digitalisation
Joint Professor Cybersecurity
Department Information Technologies and Digitalisation
Location: Campus Urstein
Room: Urstein - 421
Room: Urstein - 421
Teaching
ITS-B | 5. WS 2025 | Cryptology | IL
WIN-B | 5. WS 2025 | IT Security Engineering | IL
Focus
Teaching & Supervision
Bachelor Business Informatics and Digital Transformation: IT Security Engineering
Bachelor Information Technology and Systems Management: Cryptography (Labs)
Master Cyber Security: Advanced Topics Networking, Security and Privacy, Attack-Defense-Simulation
Subject Areas for Supervision (Bachelor, Master):
- Cybersecurity and software/systems testing
- Cyberattacks, mathematical and security modelling
Thematic Areas & Research Foci
Research Area (FH Salzburg): Resilient Security Testing
- Securing Web Technologies with Interaction Testing
- (Internet & Industrial) Protocol Security Testing
- Detection of Hardware Trojans in Chips
- Security of quantum software (implementations)
Research Area (University of Salzburg): Engineering Mathematics for Complex and Secure Systems
- Dynamics of Natural and Cyber-Disasters
- Combinatorial Designs, Algorithms and Optimization
- Technology Transfer via Combinatorial Testing Tools
Additional Information
University Professor for Cybersecurity (teaching Introduction to Cryptography and IT Security) at University of Salzburg
Current Research Projects
- FTZ CyberSec: Cybersecurity – FTZ for Data-Based Evaluation of Security and Privacy Technologies
The objective of the project is to ensure an open and comprehensive transfer of knowledge in the fields of AI security and data protection for... 07/2025 - 12/2028
Current Publications
- Annotation-Based Input Modeling for Combinatorial Testing
Combinatorial testing (CT) is an efficient and effective black-box testing technology, combinining mathematically guaranteed input space coverage with comparatively small test sets. However, it...
2025 - Bluetooth Low Energy Security Testing with Combinatorial Methods
Wireless protocols such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) play a vital role in ubiquitous computing and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Numerous vulnerabilities in a variety of devices and components of...
2025 - Combinatorial Methods for Enhancing the Resilience of Production Facilities
In this paper, we apply combinatorial methods to generate crisis scenarios for production facilities with the goal of strengthening their resilience by identifying weaknesses in operational aspects or...
2025