More than 20 years ago, the IT Security program at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) was the first of its kind in Germany. Since then, many students have successfully graduated, some of them even earning a doctorate in Bochum to start their careers from here. We present some of these graduates in our new series "Alumni of the Month". They will tell us what they learned in Bochum and how they have progressed since then.
Networking at the Alumni Lunch
Anyone interested is welcome to ask further questions in an interactive setting: On Tuesday, June 28, 2022, 12:30 to 13:00 PM all HGI alumni, doctoral candidates and students are cordially invited to participate in the interactive lunch with Dr. Benedikt Driessen. In a relaxed setting, exciting insights into the practical experiences and everyday life of an ITS expert can be gained. Questions should be sent in advance to Friederike Schneider, Deputy Managing Director for the Transfer Division.
Click here to register for the Alumni Lunch.
HGI Alumni of the Month June:
Dr. Benedikt Driessen
Then and Now
- 2007: Graduated in Bochum as Dipl.-Ing. of IT Security, favorite professor at RUB: Christof Paar
- 2022: Living in Munich
Work history
- 02/2017 until today: Freelance Embedded Security Consultant (Munich)
- 10/2015 to 01/2017: CTO & Co-Founder (PHYSEC GmbH, Bochum)
- 01/2014 to 09/2015: Security Architect (Infineon AG, Munich)
- 10/2012 to 12/2012: Interim Engineering Intern (QUALCOMM, San Diego/USA)
- 09/2009 to 12/2013: Research Assistant (Ruhr-University-Bochum)
- 10/2007 to 08/2009: Security Engineer (ESCRYPT GmbH, Bochum)
Lessons Learned
- In my studies: "IT security is an exciting discipline and it has a lot of interesting, technical aspects."
- In professional life: "IT security is a difficult discipline because it also has many other - mainly non-technical - aspects."
IT Security made in Bochum - Alumni Network at LinkedIn
In our alumni network "IT SECURITY made in BOCHUM" former students, doctoral candidates and researchers with a connection to IT security at RUB are invited to connect and discuss. All alumni of the study programs IT Security (Bachelor/Master) as well as all former employees (PhD students, researchers and administrators) of the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security (HGI) at the RUB are welcome in our network, as well as alumni of related study programs like Computer Science or Applied Computer Science.
We welcome all new members of the constantly growing community!
General note: In case of using gender-assigning attributes we include all those who consider themselves in this gender regardless of their own biological sex.