Alther

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About

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Hello,

my name is Michael aka Alther.

This page is the home of a cybersecurity professional, privacy advocat and staunch democrat.

Some of the things I have done in the past (in no particular order):

Code refactoring and extension of a Python program to analyze industrial network traffic
Threat modelling for medical IoT devices
Security evaluation of medical IoT devices
Integration and configuration of a 5G campus network into university infrastructure
Administration of 5G infrastructure
Server administration for research applications
Scientific publications
Helped building a corporate cybersecurity incident response process
Built a corporate vulnerability management process from scratch (using an XDR system and a CNAPP)
Assissted in building security training for users and developers
Wrote playbooks for various incident response scenarios
Wrote a corporate cryptography standard

Note: To protect my previous and current employers, I will not mention any specific technologies used. For further details (as long as I am allowed to talk about them) please message me directly.

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Publications

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

📃 Gleißner M., J. Dotzler, J. Hartig, A. Aßmuth, C. Bulitta, S. Hamm: Improving IT Security of Medical IoT Devices: A Maturity Evaluation and a Labeling Approach. International Journal On Advances in Security, vol. 15, no. 3 & 4, pp. 52-64, 2022.

📄 Gleißner M., J. Dotzler, J. Hartig, A. Aßmuth, C. Bulitta, S. Hamm: IT Security of Cloud Services and IoT Devices in Healthcare. The Twelfth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization, Proceedings, pp. 1-7, 2021.