Jonathan P. Chapman

Information Security Researcher

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Bio

Jonathan has been working on Information Security-related research projects since 2007, developing and evaluating innovative solutions for detecting and mitigating attacks. Outcomes of this work include a distributed network security sensor infrastructure, new medium and high interaction honeypots and security analysis' of complex control systems. He is currently working on machine learning approaches for detecting attempts to exfiltrate data from or infiltrate data or commands into protected networks.

Part of his exceptional performance is certainly the outcome of a long personal history of taking responsibility and assuming leadership. Jonathan teached his first Taekwondo class - a martial art in which he holds the second Dan or black belt degree from the olympic World Taekwondo Federation - before reaching adulthood and has served in the German Armed Forces in various positions. He maintains a passion for sports, teaches Taekwondo classes, runs regularly and takes classes for rowing and Systema. Jonathan finished the first Rhein-Ahr-Marsch, a 100km marsh that has to be completed in less than 24 hours, and the Dodentocht, the most renowned 100km in 24 hours march, nine times.

Research Interests

• Security and Privacy
• Anomaly Detection
• Applied Machine Learning
• Information Hiding
• Industrial Control System Security
• Honeypots and Honeynets

Professional Skills

• Project Management
• Managing Diverse and International Teams
• Planning and Managing Complex Information Systems
• Scientific and Technical Writing
• Presentation

Technical Skills

• Programming, Test-Driven-Development (preferred framework)
• Python (pytest)
• C++ (Google Test)
• Java (JUnit)
• Virtualization, Containerization
• Docker
• Virtualbox
• Applied Cryptopgrahy
• Relational and NoSQL Databases
• MySQL
• MongoDB

Education

• Since 2012: PhD Candidate at University of Bonn, Germany
• Management Training, including
• Project Management
• Negotiations
• Moderation, Coaching and Personnel Talks
• Communications for Managers
• Change Management
• NetFPGA 10G Workshop Microsoft Research Cambridge
• Diploma (MSc equivalent) in Computer Science, University of Bonn, Germany
  Thesis: Emulative Evaluation of a Multimodal Approach for Detecting Routing Attacks in MANETs
• Designing anomaly detection algorithms for the Sinkhole and Wormhole attacks against the OLSR routing protocol
• Implementation of the algorithms and attacks
• Implementation of an evaluation platform using OpenVZ, an early container-based virtualization
• Evaluation of the attack's impact on the attacked network
• Evaluation of the newly designed anomaly detection algorithms
• Summer School: crypt@bit