Eric Wagner, M.Sc.
External Researcher / FKIE
| Ahornstraße 55, building E3 52074 Aachen Germany | |
| wagner@comsys.rwth-aachen.de |
Short Biography
Since October 2020, I am a security and privacy researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics (FKIE) in the Cyber Analysis & Defense (CA&D) department and a Ph.D. student at the Chair of Communication and Distributed Systems. I studied Computer Science at the RWTH Aachen University and received my B.Sc. degree and M.Sc. degree in 2017 and 2020, respectively.
My current research focuses on efficient data authentication and integrity protection in industrial networks. Here, I am investigating how we can increase the efficiency of data authentication by leveraging the cooperative and regular nature within industrial networks and how these benefits can be extended across company borders. My research interests further include privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) and blockchain technology.
I was awarded the Prix d’Excellence and was runner-up at the CAST-Förderpreis IT-Sicherheit for my M.Sc thesis on designing a Tor-like network that protects against malicious activities. Additionally, I received a student travel grant to present my research on efficient atomic data and cryptocurrency exchanges in Seoul, South Korea at the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (IEEE ICBC) in 2019.
Publications
GeCos Replacing Experts: Generalizable and Comprehensible Industrial Intrusion Detection.
Proceedings of the 34th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Sec), Aug 13 - Aug 15, 2025, Seattle, WA, USA.
August 2025.
CAIBA: Multicast Source Authentication for CAN Through Reactive Bit Flipping.
Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE 10th European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), Venice, Italy.
June 2025.
Sherlock: A Dataset for Process-aware Intrusion Detection Research on Power Grid Networks.
Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), Jun 4 - Jun 6, 2025, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
June 2025.
Deployment Challenges of Industrial Intrusion Detection Systems.
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on the Security of Industrial Control Systems & of Cyber-Physical Systems (CyberICPS ‘24), Sep 16 - Sep 20, 2024, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
September 2024.
Madtls: Fine-grained Middlebox-aware End-to-end Security for Industrial Communication.
19th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM AsiaCCS ‘24), Jul 1 - Jul 5, 2024, Singapore, Singapore.
July 2024.
Blockchain Technology Accelerating Industry 4.0.
Blockchains – A Handbook on Fundamentals, vol. 105.
March 2024.
When and How to Aggregate Message Authentication Codes on Lossy Channels?.
22nd International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS ‘24), Mar 5 - Mar 9, 2024, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
March 2024.
An Interdisciplinary Survey on Information Flows in Supply Chains.
ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 56, no. 2.
February 2024.
Retrofitting Integrity Protection into Unused Header Fields of Legacy Industrial Protocols.
48th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Oct 1 - Oct 5, 2023, Daytona Beach, Florida, US.
October 2023.
SoK: Evaluations in Industrial Intrusion Detection Research.
Journal of Systems Research, vol. 3, no. 1.
October 2023.
METRICS: A Methodology for Evaluating and Testing the Resilience of Industrial Control Systems to Cyberattacks.
Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on the Security of Industrial Control Systems & of Cyber-Physical Systems (CyberICPS ‘23), Sep 28 - Sep 28, 2023, The Hague, The Netherlands.
September 2023.
One IDS is not Enough! Exploring Ensemble Learning for Industrial Intrusion Detection.
Proceedings of the 28th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS ‘23), vol. 14345, Sep 25 - Sep 29, 2023, The Hague, The Netherlands.
September 2023.
Poster: Ensemble Learning for Industrial Intrusion Detection.
38th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC ‘22), Dec 5 - Dec 9, 2022, Austin, TX, USA.
December 2022.
IPAL: Breaking up Silos of Protocol-dependent and Domain-specific Industrial Intrusion Detection Systems.
Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2022), Limassol, Cyprus.
October 2022.
Can Industrial Intrusion Detection Be SIMPLE?.
Proceedings of the 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS ‘22), vol. 978-3-031-17143-7, Sep 26 - Sep 30, 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark.
September 2022.
Network Attacks Against Marine Radar Systems: A Taxonomy, Simulation Environment, and Dataset.
IEEE, Sep 26 - Sep 29, 2022, Edmonton, Canada.
September 2022.
PowerDuck: A GOOSE Data Set of Cyberattacks in Substations.
ACM, Aug 8 - Aug 8, 2022, Moscow, Russia.
August 2022.
A False Sense of Security? Revisiting the State of Machine Learning-Based Industrial Intrusion Detection.
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (CPSS ‘22), Nagasaki Japan.
May 2022.
BP-MAC: Fast Authentication for Short Messages.
Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec ‘22), San Antonio, Texas, USA.
May 2022.
Scalable and Privacy-Focused Company-Centric Supply Chain Management.
Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC ‘22), May 2 - May 5, 2022, Shanghai, China.
May 2022.
Take a Bite of the Reality Sandwich: Revisiting the Security of Progressive Message Authentication Codes.
Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec ‘22), San Antonio, Texas, USA.
May 2022.
Collaboration is not Evil: A Systematic Look at Security Research for Industrial Use.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results (LASER ‘20), Dec 8 - Dec 8, 2020, Austin, TX, USA.
December 2021.
Poster: Facilitating Protocol-independent Industrial Intrusion Detection Systems.
Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’20), Nov 9 - Nov 13, 2020, Virtual Event, USA.
November 2020.
QWIN: Facilitating QoS in Wireless Industrial Networks Through Cooperation.
Proceedings of the 19th IFIP Networking 2020 Conference (NETWORKING ‘20), Jun 22 - Jun 26, 2020, Paris, France.
June 2020.
Dispute Resolution for Smart Contract-based Two Party Protocols.
IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency 2019 (ICBC 2019), May 14 - May 17, 2019, Seoul, South Korea.
May 2019.
Secure Low Latency Communication for Constrained Industrial IoT Scenarios.
43rd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Oct 1 - Oct 4, 2018, Chicago, IL, United States.
October 2018.
Advised Theses
Dynamic Aggregation of Message Authentication Codes in DTLS 1.3 for Constrained Networks
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, November 2024
Advisor:
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Ulrike Meyer (IT-Sec)
Learning Physical Control Invariants for Industrial Intrusion Detection
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, March 2024
Advisors:
Konrad Wolsing,
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Ulrike Meyer (IT-Sec)
Towards Enhanced Research on Industrial Intrusion Detection via Comprehensive Dataset Generation
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, September 2023
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Andreas Ulbig (IAEW)
Source Message Authentication for Multicast Messages in Fieldbus Systems using Central Authorization Component
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, August 2023
Advisors:
,
Jan Bauer (FKIE),
Till Zimmermann (Osnabrück University)
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Ulrike Meyer (IT-Sec)
Evaluating the Stability of Industrial Intrusion Detection Systems
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, June 2023
Advisors:
Konrad Wolsing,
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Sandra Geisler (DSMA)
Simulating the Effects of Cyberattacks on Aquaponic Systems
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, March 2023
Advisor:
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Ulrike Meyer (IT-Sec)
Systematically Exploring the Fusibility of State-of-the-Art Industrial Intrusion Detection Systems
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, February 2023
Advisors:
Konrad Wolsing,
Jan Pennekamp,
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Elmar Padilla (H-BRS)FOLKS Award for the best Master's theses in 2023
Evaluation of different Message Authentication Schemes in Bandwidth-constrained Industrial Networks
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, September 2022
Advisors:
,
Martin Serror (FKIE)
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Ulrike Meyer (IT-Sec)
A Topic in Efficient Industrial Communication
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, September 2022
Advisors:
,
Martin Serror (FKIE)
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Ulrike Meyer (IT-Sec)
Retrofitting Integrity Protection into Industrial Legacy Protocols by Embedding Message Authentication Codes
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, October 2021
Advisors:
,
Martin Henze (FKIE)
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Ulrike Meyer (IT-Sec)
A Company-Centric Approach for Incrementally Deployable Blockchain-Based Supply Chain Management
Master's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, September 2021
Advisors:
,
Roman Matzutt
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Ulrike Meyer (IT-Sec)
On the Generalizability of Process-Based Industrial Intrusion Detection Systems
Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, April 2021
Examiners:
Klaus Wehrle,
Ulrike Meyer (IT-Sec)