Patrick is a PhD student and researcher in the field of system security. Patrick Stewin is a PhD student and researcher in the field of system security at the Security in Telecommunications (SecT) research group at the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) and the Telekom Innovation Laboratories. Patrick’s main research interest includes stealthy attacks on computer platforms. His academic research focuses on developing efficient and effective stealthy attacks based on platform peripherals as well as new and novel techniques to reliably detect such attacks. Most recently, Patrick was involved in the development and analysis of a keystroke code logger that is hidden in the computer platform’s northbridge.