Trusted Systems
The Trusted Systems Research Group at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security focuses on system security with a strong focus on mobile platforms. This includes hardware-based security and the intersection with usable security.
Sven Bugiel
Faculty
Eric Ackermann
PhD Student
Huda Dawoud
PhD Student
Fatih Durmaz
PhD Student
Noah Mauthe
PhD Student
HTMA Riyadh
PhD Student
Alumni
Dhiman Chakraborty
Automotive Security Analyst (Research & Development) at Volkswagen
Abdallah Dawoud
Applied Security Scientist at ABB
Alfusainey Jallow
Fellow Founder at CISPA
Recent Publications
(2026).
SoK: Capability Operating Systems: Is the Future Finally Here?.
36th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security ‘26).
(2026).
Trust Nothing: RTOS Security without Run-Time Software TCB.
36th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security ‘26).
(2026).
High Impedance: Analysis of Publicly Disclosed Vulnerabilities in FPGA IP Cores.
11th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P ‘26).
(2026).
Poster: A Systematic Review of Migration-Relevant Software Idioms and Their Interactions with Capability Systems.
11th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P ‘26).
(2026).
From Discovery to Decisions: Archetypal Journeys of Mobile App Users and Their Implications on Privacy.
ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘26).