Contact information

E-Mail: hommel {at} lrz.de
Phone: +49-89-35831-7821
Fax: +49-89-35831-7621
Office: LRZ I.2.074 (2nd floor)
Postal address: Boltzmannstr. 1, D-85748 Garching n. Munich

Current projects

  • Security Management @ LRZ: Organizational measures for IT security management based on ISO/IEC 27000
  • ISO/IEC 20000 @ LRZ: Standards-based IT service management processes for the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre
  • German Grid Initiative (D-Grid): Project Grid-based Intrusion Detection System (GIDS)
  • CELTIC Project 100GET: 100 Gbit/s Carrier-Grade Ethernet Transport Technologies; End to End Carrier Grade Ethernet (E3); Subtask: Inter- and Intra Domain Management (IIDoM)
  • Geant3 Network Service Operation (SA2): Service Monitoring Tools and Performance (Task 3) / Workflow Tools (Task 5)
  • DEISA 2: Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications

Previous projects

  • LRZ-SIM: Enterprise identity & access management at LRZ
  • IntegraTUM: Identity management at Technische Universität München
  • DFN-AAI: DFN Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure (E-Learning user profile)
  • vhb-AAI: Shibboleth-based Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure for the Bavarian Virtual University

Research interests

  • Security management, security metrics, and security reporting
  • Identity & access management, federated identity management
  • Integrated network, system, application, and enterprise planning and management
  • Network and application level security in distributed systems
  • Policy-based security and privacy management
  • Process-oriented IT service management
  • Security and privacy in Grid and Cloud computing