Maximillian Dornseif has studied laws and computer science at the University of Bonn, Germany where he wrote his PhD Thesis about the "Phenomenology of Cybercrime". He has been doing security consulting since the mid nineties. His clients included the industry but also government. At the moment he works on a third party founded research project about measurement of security and security breaches taking place at the Laboratory for Dependable Distributed Systems, RWTH Aachen University. He also oversees several other projects in the area of detection and documentation of security incidents. Dornseif has published in the legal and computer science fields on a wide range of topics.