Dr. Ahmed-Seid Yesuf

External Members

Address: Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 4 Office 2.236, RuW Building D-60323 Frankfurt am Main

Research Interests

• Information Security Management
• Security and Fraud Risk Analysis
• Cybersecurity
• Security Engineering and Modeling
• Requirement Engineering

Curriculum Vitae 

Ahmed Seid Yesuf holds his B.Sc. degree in the field of Computer Science and IT with a distinction in Haramaya University, Ethiopia in 2009 and he holds his M.Sc. degree in computer science (Informatics) with specialization of Design and Engineering in October 2013 in Trento University, Italy. His thesis concentrates on implementing a framework for a context-aware and computer-aided attack tree modeling approach for software development. He has done his internship and M.Sc. thesis in SAP Next Business and Research Karlsruhe, Germany.
Since November 2013, he was working as a Scientific Researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the chair of Mobile Business and Multilateral Security at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany). In October 2019, he has successfully defended his Ph.D. in the area of Security and Fraud Prevention of E-services, at the Department of Computer Science (Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science -- FB12) Goethe University Frankfurt. 
(See the LinkedIn page for more information)  

Teaching 

• Information Communication Security (INKO) [WS15], [SS16], and [WS17]
• Mobile Business I: Technology, Markets, Platforms, and Business Models [WS16], [WS18], and [WS19]
• Mobile Business II: Application Design, Applications, Infrastructures and Security [SS17], and [SS19]
• Master Seminar: Privacy, security and fraud detection solutions for communication services 

Thesis Supervision

• 2019: Varinderpal Singh, “Survey on Security Risk Assessment of IoT (Internet of Things)”, M.Sc. thesis.
• 2016: Christopher Otto, “How Impersonation of Customers & Businesses Contributes to Fraud Risks of Electronic Commerce Companies”, B.Sc. thesis.
• 2014: Hartusch, Wolf-Jaromir, “Comparison of Socio-Technical Modeling Approaches in the Domain of Telecommunication”, M.Sc. thesis.

Academic Paper Reviews (Journals and Conferences/workshops)

I am involved in various journal and conference/workshop paper reviews), including the following. 

• Computers and Security journal
• IJAIT (International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools)
• ESORICS (European Symposium on Research in Computer Security)
• NORDSEC (Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems)
• IFIP SEC (IFIP International Information Security and Privacy Conference)
• DPM (International Workshop on Data Privacy Management)
• ISPEC (Information Security Practice and Experience Conference)
• CRiSIS (International Conference on Risks and Security of
  Internet and Systems)
• BIOSIG (International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group)
• SICHERHEIT
• IWSEC (International Workshop on Security)

Publications

• Dan Ionita, Jaap Gordijn, Ahmed Seid Yesuf, Roel Wieringa. 2018. "Quantitative, Value-driven Risk Analysis of e-Services", AAA Journal of Information Systems, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325611131_Quantitative_Value-driven_Risk_Analysis_of_e-Services.
• Ahmed Seid Yesuf. 2018. "MP-RA: Towards a Model-driven and Pattern-based Risk Analysis of e-service Fraud", Services 2018, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325651756_MP-RA_Towards_a_Model-driven_and_Pattern-based_Risk_Analysis_of_e-service_Fraud.
• Ahmed Seid Yesuf, Christian W Probst. 2018. "Estimating the Risk of Fraud against E-services", Accepted in: NordSec 2018, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327623314_Estimating_the_Risk_of_Fraud_against_E-services.
• Ahmed Seid Yesuf. 2017. "A Review of Risk Identification Approaches in the Telecommunication Domain", International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy.
• Ahmed Seid Yesuf, Lars Wolos, Kai Rannenberg. 2017. "Fraud Risk Modelling: Requirements Elicitation in the Case of Telecom Services", The 8th International Conference on Exploring Service Science, IESS 1.7, https://m-chair.de/images/documents/publications/Yesuf/FRM_Requirement_Elicitation_16.pdf.
• Ahmed Seid Yesuf, Jetzabel Serna-Olvera, Kai Rannenberg. 2017. "Using Fraud Patterns for Fraud Risk Assessment of E-services", 32nd International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection -- IFIP SEC 2017, https://m-chair.de/images/documents/publications/Yesuf/Using_FRP_for_risk_Assessment_66.pdf.
• Dan Ionita, Jaap Gordijn, Ahmed Seid Yesuf, and Roel Wieringa. 2016. "Value-Driven Risk Analysis of Coordination Models", 9th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on The Practice of Enterprise Modeling , https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309475723_Value-Driven_Risk_Analysis_of_Coordination_Models.

• Ahmed S. Yesuf, R. Wieringa, L. Wolos, M. Ford, S. Bleikertz, M. Martins, S. Saraiva, M. Fraile. 2015. "Final Requirements for Implementation of Case Studies (D7.1.2)", http://www.trespass-project.eu/, TREsPASS.
• S. Bleikertz, J.-W. Bullée, M. Ford, O. Gadyatskaya, D. Gollmann, R.R. Hansen, D. Ionita, H. Jonkers, L. Mon- toya, C.W. Probst, S. Saraiva, A. Tanner, S. Übelacker, L. Wolos, A.S. Yesuf. 2015. "Extensibility of Socio-Technical Security Models (D1.3.2)", https://www.trespass-project.eu/sites/default/files/Deliverables/D1_3_2.pdf, TREsPASS.
• S. Bleikertz, J.W. Bullée, M. Ford, D. Ionita, H. Jonkers, L. Montoya, S. Saraiva, A. Tan- ner, A.S. Yesuf, J. Willemson, C.W. Probst. 2015. "Dynamic features of socio-technical security models (D1.3.3)", https://www.trespass-project.eu/sites/default/files/Deliverables/D1_3_3.pdf, TREsPASS.
• M. Ford A. Lenin, O. Gadyatskaya, D. Ionita, A. Tan- ner, S. Saraiva. 2015. "First report on the integrated TREsPASS process (D5.4.1)".
• Ahmed S. Yesuf, Lars Wolos, Roel Wieringa, Dan Ionita, Margaret Ford. 2014. "Results from Case Study B: Telecommunication Services (D7.3.1)", http://www.trespass-project.eu/, TREsPASS.
• Jan-Willem Bullée, Sören Bleikertz, Mar- garet Ford, René Rydhof Hansen, Ma- rieta Georgieva Ivanova, Lorena Mon- toya, Christian W. Probst, Sven Übelacker, Ahmed S. Yesuf. 2014. "Initial Policy-Specification Language (D1.2.1)", http://www.trespass-project.eu/, TREsPASS.