Dr.-Ing. Amr Osman

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Dr.-Ing. Amr Osman

Chair of privacy and security

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Amr is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, TU Dresden - CeTI Excellence cluster headed by Prof. Dr. Frank Fitzek. At the time of writing this, he finalized his PhD thesis about “Agile Network Security for Software Defined Edge Clouds” at the chair of data privacy & security under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Thorsten Strufe. During his PhD, he was actively involved in many research clusters and projects including the Helmholtz Institute of Information Security and Dependability (KASTEL) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and the center of excellence for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-loop (CeTI). Amr’s work won multiple awards such as the first place at the Telekom challenge 2021. It also was featured in many venues such as the Software campus summit 2022, Huawei research center, Munich in 2019, Avast inc, USA in 2020, and the website of the German ministry of education and research (BMBF) in 2018. In the past, Amr was a founding member of stacktile GmbH advised by Prof. Dr. Stefan Schmid, and Prof. Dr. Marco Canini, and was a research assistant at the TU Berlin, chair of Internet Network Architectures (INET) headed by Prof. Dr. Anja Feldmann. He also held various positions at Vodafone and Intel labs.

Research interests

Security and privacy issues in...

• {Cloud, Fog, Edge} Computing
• Microservice Architectures
• Future Internet {NFV, SDN}

Awards & Public Distinction

Parts of Amr's work, and its derivatives, i.e. supervised theses, won multiple awards:

• First place, Telekom Challenge by T-Labs, 2020: https://web.archive.org/web/20220209130805/https://www.telekom.com/en/media/media-information/archive/telekom-announces-winners-of-telekom-challenge-635072 , https://www.informatik.kit.edu/11147_12293.php , https://tu-dresden.de/ing/informatik/sya/ps/die-professur/news/telekom-prize-for-amr-osman , https://www.kuvs.de/newsletter/kuvs-newsletter__2021-12.pdf
• News article and Interview by the German ministry of education (BMBF) - Digital summit 2018: https://www.bildung-forschung.digital/digitalezukunft/de/unsere-ueberzeugungen/digitalstrategie-der-bundesregierung/digital-gipfel-2018-software-campus/digital-gipfel-2018-software-campus.html
• News Article & collab. with Huawei research center, Munich at Software campus 2018
  (Acceptance rate 15%): https://10jahre.softwarecampus.de/tu-dresden
• News Article & collab. with Avast Inc., USA in the R&D context of Avast Omni
  (CES Innovation award 2020, Patent pending): https://blog.avast.com/transparent-microsegmentation-for-smart-home-security-avast , https://www.ces.tech/Innovation-Awards/Honorees/2020/Best-Of/A/Avast-Omni.aspx
• First place at the Women STEM award 2019 for best thesis in cyber security: https://tu-dresden.de/ing/informatik/sya/ps/die-professur/news/jeannine-born-wins-telekom-stem-award
• First and second places at Telekom #AIHack4Diversity 2019: https://tu-dresden.de/ing/informatik/sya/ps/die-professur/news/jeannine-and-her-team-win-the-first-place-at-telekoms-a-i-hackathon
• First place, CHR Summer School contest, KU Leuven 2010: https://dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/CHR/summerschool/contest/
• First place, Software Engineering Contest, GUC (Sponsors: IBM, Microsoft) 2010

Curiculum Vitae

Certifications

• SOTS Scholar, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 2022
• Alumni, Young Entrepreneurs in Science, Falling Walls Foundation gGmbH, 2022
• Foundations of Humane Technology, Center for Humane Technology, 2022
• Alumni, Software Campus Leadership Program, EIT ICT Labs Germany GmbH, 2020
• Creating an Innovation Roadmap for Emerging Technologies, Fraunhofer ISI, 2019
• Cultural Awareness and Decision Making, Huawei, 2019
• Insights Discovery, Merck Group, 2019
• Team Building and Leadership, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, 2019
• Work smart - not had! Self-Leadership, Rohde & Schwarz, 2019
• Design Thinking, ZEISS Group, 2019

Projects

• Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CeTI), DFG
• Helmholtz Kompetenzzentrum für angewandte Sicherheitstechnologie (KASTEL), BMBF
• Automatic Network Micro-segmentation for Smart home networks, Telekom challenge by T-Labs.
• Agile Network Security for Edge Clouds, Software Campus / Huawei Munich GmbH
• Secure Network Micro-slicing for Smart IoT home networks, Avast inc., USA
• ANON.Next, BMBF
• FASTcloud, BMBF
• SDNterprise / Panopticon (SDN incremental deployment), BMWi / EXIST

Publications

(Selected)

• Amr Osman, Armin Wasicek, Stefan Koepsell, Thorsten Strufe, “Transparent Microsegmentation in Smart Home IoT Networks”. In: 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Edge Computing (HotEdge 20). USENIX Association, June 2020.
• Amr Osman, Pascal Bruckner, Hani Salah, Frank H. P. Fitzek, Thorsten Strufe, Mathias Fischer: “Sandnet: Towards High Quality of Deception in Container-Based Microservice Architectures”. In: ICC 2019, Shanghai, China, May 20-24, 2019. IEEE, 2019, pp. 1–7.
• Simon Hanisch, Amr Osman, Tao Li, Thorsten Strufe “Chapter 23 - Security for mobile edge cloud”. In: Computing in Communication Networks: From Theory to Practice. Ed. by Frank H.P. Fitzek, Fabrizio Granelli, and Patrick Seeling. Academic Press, 2020, pp. 371–385. isbn: 978-0-12-820488-7.
• Amr Osman, Jeannine Born, Patricia Arias Cabarcos, and Thorsten Strufe. "Smart home
  microsegmentation with user privacy in mind". In (In submission), 2022
• Amr Osman, Jeannine Born, and Thorsten Strufe. "Mitigating internal, stealthy dos attacks in microservice networks." In Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, pages 500–504. Springer, 2021
• Amr Osman, Simon Hanisch, and Thorsten Strufe. "Seconetbench: A modular framework for secure container networking benchmarks". In IEEE EuroS&P-W, pages 21–28, 2019
• Amr Osman. "Dynamic network security for software-defined agile edge clouds". EBSIS
  2017–Proceedings of the EBSIS Summer school on Distributed Event Based Systems, pages 26–27, 2017
• Amr Osman and Pascal Bruckner. "Demo: Dynamic & live network micro-segmentation to seamlessly confine adversarial connections". IEEE 5G Summit 2017
• Amr Osman and Armin Wasicek. "Poster: Microslicing - iot device segmentation for home networks". IEEE 5G World Forum 2019

Academic service

• Reviewer, IEEE S&P 2022
• Reviewer, ACM WPES 2021
• Reviewer, IEEE Percom 2020
• Reviewer, International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (Springer ACNS)  2020a
• Reviewer, IEEE CNS 2018
• Reviewer, IEEE/IFIP MIDDLEWARE 2018
• Reviewer, IEEE J-SAC vol. 35 issue 11, November 2017

Alumni

Previous students of Amr and their latest known positions (selected):

• Simon Hanisch (M.Sc.), Research Assistant, KIT Karlsruhe, Germany
• Jeannine Born (B.Sc., M.Sc.), Winner of Telekom Challenge 2021, Telekom AIHack4Diversity 2019, Telekom Women STEM award 2019
• Mohamed Alzayat, PhD student at Max-Planck Institute for software systems, Saarland, Germany
• Christine Awad, Director of Engineering at Facebook, California, USA

• Ahmed Malatawy, Senior Software Engineer at Google, Paris, France

• Nader Alexan, CTO at Airteam Aerial Intelligence, Berlin, Germany
• Mayada Nour, Software Engineer at Amazon, Madrid, Spain

Supervision

Past experience with the co-ordination of bi-lateral DAAD-sponsored academic theses for international students between the GUC/GIU, and the following Universities: Ulm University, Stuttgart University, TU Munich, TU Berlin, and the TU Dresden.

Sample B.Sc. and M.Sc. topics from the past (selected):

• Ali Kabeel (B.Sc.), Emulating microservice networks for critical path analysis & proactive chaos engineering
• Jeannine Born (M.Sc.), Automatic smarthome IoT network microsegmentation based on user privacy preferences
• Jeannine Born (B.Sc.), Live network deception of high-interaction adversaries
• Simon Hanisch (M.Sc.), Modular benchmarks & analysis of secure container networking technologies

• Can Xie (M.Sc.), Dynamic network security and NFV composition in highly-mobile container clouds

• Jan-Ralph Sroka (M.Sc.), Proactive cloning and migration of malicious containers in deception networks
• Tim Stelzig (B.Sc.), Dataplane-assisted fault tolerance for SDN controllers

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