Fabian Lucas Ballreich, M.Sc.

Fabian Lucas Ballreich, M.Sc.

  • Kaiserstraße 89
    76133 Karlsruhe

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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.

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)

Research projects

  • Effective Security Awareness at KIT (01.07.2021 - 30.06.2023)

Publikationen


2025
Journal Articles
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
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
2024
Conference Papers
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
2023
Conference Papers
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
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
2020
Journal Articles
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