Holger Dreger
PhD student from August 2002 till July 2007. Now, I'm working for Siemens CERT, which is part of Siemens AG, Corporate Technology. There, my professional and research focus is application security. Email: hdreger@net.in.tum.de

Research Interests

• Network Security
• Network Intrusion Detection
  • Bro, a very flexible NIDS
• Network Performance

Publications

Papers

• Holger Dreger, Anja Feldmann, Michael Mai, Vern Paxson, Robin Sommer
  Dynamic Application-Layer Protocol Analysis for Network Intrusion Detection
  Proceedings of the 15th Usenix Security Symposium, 2006
  Slides (PDF)


• Bernhard Ager, Holger Dreger, Anja Feldmann
  Predicting the DNSSEC overhead using DNS traces
  Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, 2006


• Stefan Kornexl, Vern Paxson, Holger Dreger, Anja Feldmann, Robin Sommer
  Building a Time Machine for Efficient Recording and Retrieval of High-Volume Network Traffic
  Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, 2005


• Holger Dreger, Christian Kreibich, Vern Paxson, and Robin Sommer
  Enhancing the Accuracy of Network-based Intrusion Detection with Host-based Context
  Proceedings of the 2nd GI Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment, 2005


• Jörg Wallerich, Holger Dreger, Anja Feldmann, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Walter Willinger
  A Methodology for Studying Persistency Aspects of Internet Flows
  Computer Communication Review 35(2): 23-36 (2005)


• Holger Dreger, Anja Feldmann, Vern Paxson, Robin Sommer
  Operational Experiences with High-Volume Network Intrusion Detection
  Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2004


• Andy Rupp, Holger Dreger, Anja Feldmann, Robin Sommer
  A Packet Trace Manipulation Framework for Test Labs
  Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, 2004
  Slides (PDF)

others

• Holger Dreger
  Operational Network Intrusion Detection: Resource-Analysis Tradeoffs
  PhD thesis, Technische Universität München, Germany, 2007


• Holger Dreger
  DNS Usage and Performance A Packet Level Analysis
  Master thesis (Diplomarbeit), Universitat des Saarlandes, Germany, 2002