The SUSE Security Team

These are the members of the SUSE Security Team, listed in the order they joined SUSE.

Marc Heuse <marc@suse.de>
Marc Heuse is specialized in IT-Security Strategy consulting (ISO 17799), penetration tests, secure infrastructures and source code audits. Marc founded the SUSE Security Team in 1998, but took a fulltime job as the Solution Director for Security in Germany at Unisys in 2002. As much as his time allows, Marc is still working part-time for SUSE and helps to secure the distribution.
Marc is passionately travelling through remote parts of the world with his backpack. In his spare time, he likes live-action role-playing.

Thomas Biege <thomas@suse.de>
Thomas Biege studied computer science at the University of Applied Science at Dortmund. During his studies he did a number of freelance projects for various fortune-100 companies as well as for his University. Thomas has been a member of the SUSE Security Team since March 1999. He specializes in Intrusion Detection Systems which he also wrote his diploma thesis about. During his time at SUSE Security, he has conducted several dozen source code audits of Open Source Software as part of his employment. The results have contributed to the strong security reputation of GNU/Linux in general and SUSE LINUX in particular.
Thomas enjoys Aikido in his private life.

Roman Drahtmüller <draht@suse.de>
Roman Drahtmüller studied Physics at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany, and the University of Connecticut, USA. During his time at the university, he came in touch with all major commercial Linux-like operating systems before focusing on Linux. Roman gave UNIX training courses and accepted several other jobs at the university. He joined SUSE in July 2000 for the position of the Head of Security. His responsibilities also include the security certification projects of SLES8.
Roman's favourite leisure activities include music, chess, alpine skiing and high mountains.

Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@suse.de>
Sebastian Krahmer studied Computer Science at the University of Potsdam, Germany. He focused on operating systems, parallel computing and network security. He developed various software for cluster systems such as an IPv4/IPv6 load balancer. Sebastian joined the SUSE Security Team in August 2000 and is responsible for researching and analyzing security relevant topics. This includes, among other things, code reviews of security critical software.
Fishing, chess and music are Sebastian's favourite activities in his spare time.

Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
Olaf Kirch came across Linux at a time when an entire distribution still fit on 7 floppy disks, while he was working on his Diploma thesis in Mathematics at the University of Darmstadt. At the same time, he started the "Linux Network Administrator's Guide", one of the first books on Linux to be published. He also wrote most of the Linux NFS client and server implementation, as well a number of smaller system utlities.
Olaf's involvement in Linux security started in 1996. In 1997, he joined LST, which was to become the German engineering division of Caldera. He was Caldera's security officer until 2002, when he moved on to SUSE, where he adds his broad experience to the SUSE Security Team. In addition to his security work, Olaf is busy with kernel development in the areas of NFS and IPv6/IPsec.
Olaf likes to spend his spare time with his family, and reading Science Fiction novels.

SUSE Security Team Fellows

These fellow collegues come in touch with the SUSE Security Team frequently and enrich the ongoing efforts with their work and experience:

Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
Kurt Garloff studied Physics at University of Dortmund where he graduated in 1999. He moved to Eindhoven to work on a PhD at TU/e. In 1999, he joined SUSE to work on storage related issues such as the SCSI subsystem of the Linux kernel where he maintains a driver.
From time to time he filled in a gap in the Security Team and took care of some of the most security-critical packages in SUSE products. After Roman Drahtmueller joined the Security Team, he focused on storage again. He still continues to exercise his fascination for cryptography after he became Head of SUSE Labs in 2003.
Kurt enjoys most of his spare time with his longtime girlfriend, and also likes to juggle, to run, to drive bicycle or motorcycle when he doesn't socialize with his friends in an enjoyable restaurant or bar.

Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
Marcus Meissner started working with Linux in 1993 during his studies of Computer Science at the University Erlangen/Nürnberg. His Linux involvment centered mostly around the Windows Emulator WINE during this time, while his studies focused on operating systems and multimedia.
In 1999 he joined Caldera in Erlangen, where he worked on the distribution development of Caldera OpenLinux. At Caldera he got his first contact to Linux security as backup of Olaf Kirch, taking over most of the day-by-day security work in the year 2001.
In 2002 he migrated to SUSE, where he is now working in the architecture maintenance team, which includes seeing to PowerPC related security updates happening smoothly.
His hobbies include walking through the town, pubs, digital cameras and WINE.