Steffen Fries
Principal Engineer at IEEE
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSteffen Fries is a Principal Engineer at Siemens Corporate Technology with three decades of experience specializing in security architecture and assessments for real-time and industrial automation systems. He combines deep protocol-level expertise—authoring multiple IETF RFCs and contributing to NIST guidance—with hands-on work securing energy and vehicle-to-grid systems via IEC 62351 and ISO 15118. Steffen has driven security standardization for precision time protocols (IEEE 1588) and power-system telecontrol, representing Siemens in IETF, IEC, and IEEE forums. His background in electrical engineering and early research in microtechnologies informs a pragmatic approach to threat modeling, key management, and bootstrapping secure communications in constrained, safety-critical environments. Notably, he bridges automotive origins and energy automation, bringing cross-domain insight to industrial cyber security challenges.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Electrical Engineering, Information Technique, Diplom, Electrical Engineering, Information Technique at Technische Universität Chemnitz
Github Skills (17)
responder9
encryption8
cryptography8
ssl8
decryption7
openssl7
crypto7
signed6
markdown6
tls135
async5
asynchronous5
certificate4
jose3
json3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
anima-wg/anima-brski-prm
Nov 2021 - Mar 2025
ANIMA BRSKI Pledge in Responder Mode
Contributions:187 reviews, 12 PRs, 151 pushes in 3 years 4 months
pledgerespondermarkdownanima
anima-wg/anima-brski-ae
Oct 2020 - Sep 2022
BRSKI with alternative enrollments
Contributions:1 review, 47 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 11 months
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