Fabian Lucas Ballreich, M.Sc.
- Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
- Gruppe: SECUSO
- Raum: 3A-27
CS 05.20 - Tel.: +49 721 608-45045
- fabian ballreich ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
- Kaiserstraße 89
76133 Karlsruhe
Curriculum Vitae
Fabian Ballreich is a research associate in the SECUSO Research Group of Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer since 2022 and graduated from the Karlsruhe Institut of Technology (KIT) with a Master's degree in Information Systems. He started as a student assistant at SECUSO in 2019 and is now working in the area of security awareness in the context of universities and large organizations. Within the group, he is primarily responsible for coordinating overall teaching activities and organizing lecture and exercises.
Research interests
- Organizational cybersecurity awareness
- Information security incident and phishing reporting
- Security of mail communication
Teaching
- Summer 2026: Applied Informatics - Cybersecurity (lecture + exercise), Security, Usability and Society (lab)
- Winter 2025: Security and Privacy Awareness (seminar)
- Summer 2025: Applied Informatics - Cybersecurity (lecture + exercise)
- Winter 2024: Security, Usability and Society (lab)
- Summer 2024: Applied Informatics - Information Security (lecture + exercise), Digital Citizen Science (seminar)
- Winter 2023: Security and Privacy Awareness (seminar)
- Winter 2022: Security, Usability and Society (lab), Datenschutz und Informationssicherheit (seminar)
- Summer 2022: Applied Informatics - Information Security (lecture + exercise)
Co-Supervision
- Elias Haller (supervised by Prof. Melanie Volkamer and Fabian Ballreich) Passkeys at KIT: Analysis of Barriers and Development of Awareness Material (ongoing)
- Karin Zhang (supervised by Prof. Melanie Volkamer and Fabian Ballreich) Understanding User Strategies for Detecting S/MIME Email Signature Spoofing Attacks in Outlook: A Usability Perspective (2025)
- Niklas Schultz (supervised by Prof. Melanie Volkamer, Dr. Benjamin Berens and Fabian Ballreich): Empirischen Studie: Die Wirkung eines Linkzentrierten Aufklärungsvideos für Hörgeschädigte zum Thema Phishing (2025)
- Mario Gemov (supervised by Prof. Melanie Volkamer and Fabian Ballreich) Usability analysis of mail clients with regard to S/MIME (2024)
Publikationen
2025
Zeitschriftenaufsätze
Manuelles Löschen von Phishing-Nachrichten aus Mitarbeiterpostfächern : Rechtliche und technische Grenzen
Hunter, J. C.; Ballreich, F. L.; Kemmler, K. J.; Volkamer, M.
2025. Zeitschrift für Digitalisierung und Recht (ZfDR), 5 (1), 23–43
Hunter, J. C.; Ballreich, F. L.; Kemmler, K. J.; Volkamer, M.
2025. Zeitschrift für Digitalisierung und Recht (ZfDR), 5 (1), 23–43
SoK: The past decade of user deception in emails and today’s email clients’ susceptibility to phishing techniques
Veit, M. F.; Wiese, O.; Ballreich, F. L.; Volkamer, M.; Engels, D.; Mayer, P.
2025. Computers & Security, 150, 104197. doi:10.1016/j.cose.2024.104197
Veit, M. F.; Wiese, O.; Ballreich, F. L.; Volkamer, M.; Engels, D.; Mayer, P.
2025. Computers & Security, 150, 104197. doi:10.1016/j.cose.2024.104197
2024
Proceedingsbeiträge
Erstellung eines Erklärvideos zur Verwendung von S/MIME (WIP)
Ballreich, F. L.; Volkamer, M.
2024. Mensch und Computer 2024 (MuC), Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). doi:10.18420/muc2024-mci-ws17-152
Ballreich, F. L.; Volkamer, M.
2024. Mensch und Computer 2024 (MuC), Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). doi:10.18420/muc2024-mci-ws17-152
2023
Proceedingsbeiträge
Encouraging Organisational Information Security Incident Reporting
Ballreich, F. L.; Volkamer, M.; Müllmann, D.; Berens, B. M.; Häußler, E. M.; Renaud, K. V.
2023. EuroUSEC ’23: Proceedings of the 2023 European Symposium on Usable Security, 224–236, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi:10.1145/3617072.3617098
Ballreich, F. L.; Volkamer, M.; Müllmann, D.; Berens, B. M.; Häußler, E. M.; Renaud, K. V.
2023. EuroUSEC ’23: Proceedings of the 2023 European Symposium on Usable Security, 224–236, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi:10.1145/3617072.3617098
A user-centred approach to facilitate locating company security policies : Nutzerzentrierter Ansatz zur Vereinfachung des Auffindens von Security Policies
Aldag, L.; Ballreich, F.; Berens, B.; Volkamer, M.
2023. MuC ’23: Proceedings of Mensch und Computer. Ed.: M. Stolze, 173–185, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi:10.1145/3603555.3603573
Aldag, L.; Ballreich, F.; Berens, B.; Volkamer, M.
2023. MuC ’23: Proceedings of Mensch und Computer. Ed.: M. Stolze, 173–185, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi:10.1145/3603555.3603573
2020
Zeitschriftenaufsätze
Erstellung von effektiven Sensibilisierungsmaterialien zur Passwortsicherheit
Mayer, P.; Ballreich, F.; Düzgün, R.; Schwarz, C.; Volkamer, M.
2020. Datenschutz und Datensicherheit, 44 (8), 522–527. doi:10.1007/s11623-020-1318-9
Mayer, P.; Ballreich, F.; Düzgün, R.; Schwarz, C.; Volkamer, M.
2020. Datenschutz und Datensicherheit, 44 (8), 522–527. doi:10.1007/s11623-020-1318-9