Chair of Mobile Business & Multilateral Security

Christopher Schmitz, M.Sc.

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Research Interests
  • Decision Support in Information Security
  • Information Security Management
  • Information Security Risk Assessment
  • Security and Risk Metrics
Curriculum Vitae 

Christopher Schmitz is a research and teaching assistant at the Chair of Mobile Business and Multilateral Security at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. He studied computer science in combination with business administration (“Wirtschaftsinformatik”) at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. Throughout his entire studies, he worked in the Security Test Lab of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) in Darmstadt where he gained experiences in various fields of information security and privacy. Thereafter, Christopher joined the m-chair research group to develop a lightweight and risk-based approach for decision support in information security.

Reviewing Activities

He has been an external reviewer for the following journals, conferences and workshops:

  • Computers & Security (2015, 2016, 2018)
  • ESORICS (2017)
  • IFIP SEC (2015, 2016, 2017, 2021)
  • TrustCom (2016)
  • CRiSIS (2015, 2018, 2019, 2020)
  • NordSec (2016)
  • ICICS (2017)
  • MKWI (2016, 2018)
  • Sicherheit (2016, 2018)
  • BIOSIG (2016, 2017)
  • ITDRR (2016)
  • SSR (2016)
  • IWSEC (2015)
  • OID (2016, 2021)
  • CyberHunt (2019)
  • Sensyble (2020)
Publications
Refereed Publications
  • Schmitz, Christopher; Schmid, Michael; Harborth, David; Pape, Sebastian. 2021. "Maturity Level Assessments of Information Security Controls: An Empirical Analysis of Practitioners' Assessment Capabilities", Computers & Security, Vol. (108), Elsevier.
  • Schmitz, Christopher; Pape, Sebastian. 2020. "LiSRA: Lightweight Security Risk Assessment for Decision Support in Information Security", Computers & Security, Vol. (90), Elsevier.
  • Pape, Sebastian; Schmitz, Christopher; Kipker, Dennis-Kenji; Sekulla, André. 2020. "On the Use of Information Security Management Systems by German Energy Providers", In: Fourteenth Annual IFIP WG 11.10 International Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection (ICCIP 2020), Arlington, Virginia, USA.
  • Schmitz, Christopher; Sekulla, André; Pape, Sebastian. 2020. "Asset-Centric Analysis and Visualisation of Attack Trees", In: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec 2020), Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Sekulla, André; Schmitz, Christopher; Pape, Sebastian; Pipek, Voklmar. 2019. "Demonstrator zur Beschreibung und Visualisierung einer kritischen Infrastruktur", In: Human Practice. Digital Ecologies. Our Future. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI 2019), 2019, Siegen, Germany.
  • Schmitz, Christopher; Sekulla, André; Pape, Sebastian; Pipek, Volkmar; Rannenberg Kai. 2018. "Easing the Burden of Security Self-Assessments", In: Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance (HAISA 2018), Dundee, Scotland.
  • Dax, Julian; Hamburg, Daniel; Kreusch, Michael; Ley, Benedikt; Pape, Sebastian; Pipek, Volker; Rannenberg, Kai; Schmitz, Christopher; Terhaag, Frank. 2016. "Sichere Informationsinfrastrukturen für kleine und mittlere Energieversorger", Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (MKWI 2016), Teilkonferenz IT-Sicherheit für Kritische Infrastrukturen (Poster), Ilmenau, Germany.
  • Dax, Julian; Ley, Benedikt; Pape, Sebastian; Schmitz, Christopher; Pipek, Volkmar; Rannenberg, Kai. 2016. "Elicitation of Requirements for an Inter-Organizational Platform to Support Security Management Decisions", In: Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance (HAISA 2016), Frankfurt, Germany.
  • Chehrazi, Golriz; Schmitz, Christopher; Hinz, Oliver. 2015. "QUANTSEC - Ein Modell zur Nutzenquantifizierung von IT-Sicherheitsmaßnahmen", In: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI 2015), Eds. Oliver Thomas; Frank Teuteberg, Osnabrück, Germany.
Others
  • Pape, Sebastian; Pipek, Volkmar; Rannenberg, Kai; Schmitz, Christopher; Sekulla, André; Terhaag, Frank. 2018. "Stand zur IT-Sicherheit deutscher Stromnetzbetreiber", Technical Reporthttps://dokumentix.ub.uni-siegen.de/opus/volltexte/2018/1394/, Universität Siegen.
  • Dax, Julian; Ley, Benedikt; Pape, Sebastian; Pipek, Volker; Rannenberg, Kai; Schmitz, Christopher; Sekulla, André. 2017. "Stand zur IT-Sicherheit deutscher Stromnetzbetreiber", Technical Reporthttp://dokumentix.ub.uni-siegen.de/opus/volltexte/2017/1185, Universität Siegen.
  • Dax, Julian; Ivan, Ana; Ley, Benedikt; Pape, Sebastian; Pipek, Volker; Rannenberg, Kai; Schmitz, Christopher; Sekulla, Andre. 2017. "IT Security Status of German Energy Providers", Technical Reporthttps://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01254, Cornell University, arXiv.
Book Chapters
  • Dax, Julian; Pape, Sebastian; Pipek, Volkmar; Rannenberg, Kai; Schmitz, Christopher; Sekulla, André; Terhaag, Frank. 2018. "Das SIDATE-Portal im Einsatz", State of the Art: IT-Sicherheit für Kritische Infrastrukturen, pp. 145-150, Universität der Bundeswehr, Neubiberg.
  • Dax, Julian; Hamburg, Daniel; Pape, Sebastian; Pipek, Volkmar; Rannenberg, Kai; Schmitz, Christopher; Sekulla, André; Terhaag, Frank. 2018. "Sichere Informationsnetze bei kleinen und mittleren Energieversorgern (SIDATE)", State of the Art: IT-Sicherheit für Kritische Infrastrukturen, pp. 29, Universität der Bundeswehr, Neubiberg.
  • Dax, Julian; Pape, Sebastian; Pipek, Volkmar; Rannenberg, Kai; Schmitz, Christopher; Sekulla, André; Terhaag, Frank. 2018. "Stand der IT-Sicherheit bei deutschen Stromnetzbetreibern", State of the Art: IT-Sicherheit für Kritische Infrastrukturen, pp. 69-74, Universität der Bundeswehr, Neubiberg.
  • Hamburg, Daniel; Niephaus, Thorsten; Noll, Wolfgang; Pape, Sebastian; Rannenberg, Kai; Schmitz, Christopher. 2018. "SIDATE: Gefährdungen und Sicherheitsmaßnahmen", In: State of the Art: IT-Sicherheit für Kritische Infrastrukturen, Eds. Rudel, D. and Lechner, U., pp. 51, Universität der Bundeswehr, Neubiberg.