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Christian Niesler, M.Sc.

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Bio

Christian Niesler is a research assistant in the working group for System Security at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Curriculum Vitae

YearPosition / Study Program
since 10/2020Research Assistant at the System Security (Syssec) group at the University of Duisburg-Essen
10/2017 – 09/2020Master of Science: Software and Network Engineering at University Duisburg-Essen 
Threat and Vulnerability Management at DXC Technology in Ratingen
10/2014 – 09/2017Bachelor of Science: Applied Computer Science at Cooperative State University in Stuttgart 
Dual Study at Hewlett-Packard (Enterprise)

Publications

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  • Christian Niesler, Christian Scholz and Lucas Davi: MPUsh: Applying Security Hotpatches Instead Of MPU Barriers. In: Proc. of 2nd Constructive Approaches for SeCurity Analysis and Design of Embedded systems Conference (CASCADE'26), Springer, Regensburg, Germany, mar 2026.  
  • Christian Niesler, Christian Scholz, Nils Hannappel and Lucas Davi: Co-Guard: Guarding Safety-Critical Embedded Devices in Emergencies. In: Proc. of 2nd Constructive Approaches for SeCurity Analysis and Design of Embedded systems Conference (CASCADE'26), Springer, Regensburg, Germany, 2026.  
  • Philipp Mackensen, Christian Niesler, Roberto Blanco, Lucas Davi and Veelasha Moonsamy: KINTSUGI : Secure Hotpatching for Code-Shadowing Real-Time Embedded Systems. In: Proc. of 34th USENIX Security Symposium, , jun 2025.  
  • Jan Philipp Thoma, Christian Niesler, Dominic Funke, Gregor Leander, Pierre Mayr, Nils Pohl, Lucas Davi and Tim Güneysu: ClepsydraCache - Preventing Cache Attacks with Time-Based Evictions. In: Proc. of 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, , Anaheim, CA, aug 2023.  
  • Sebastian Surminski, Christian Niesler, Lucas Davi and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi: DMA'n'Play: Practical Remote Attestation Based on Direct Memory Access. In: Proc. of 21st International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), , Kyoto, Japan, jun 2023.  
  • Sebastian Surminski, Christian Niesler, Sebastian Linsner, Lucas Davi and Christian Reuter: SCAtt-man: Side-Channel-Based Remote Attestation for Embedded Devices that Users Understand. In: Proc. of the 13th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), Volume 2023, ACM, Charlotte, NC, United States, apr 2023.  
  • Sebastian Surminski, Christian Niesler, Ferdinand Brasser, Lucas Davi and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi: RealSWATT: Remote Software-based Attestation for Embedded Devices under Realtime Constraints. In: Proc. of the 28th ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Volume 2021, ACM, New York, USA, nov 2021.   [DOI]
  • Christian Niesler, Sebastian Surminski and Lucas Davi: HERA: Hotpatching of Embedded Real-time Applications. In: Proc. of 28th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), , feb 2021.   [DOI]

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    Christian Niesler, M.Sc.

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