The eco-founded Alliance for the Strengthening of Digital Infrastructures in Germany publishes a press statement regarding the hearing on the German Energy Efficiency Act Amendment Bill in the Committee for Climate Protection and Energy.

In our eco member interview, Marcel Rieger, Managing Director at JAMORIE Consulting, explains what the central challenges of digital transformation are today and how modern consulting approaches look.

A recent eco survey shows that online news portals (59.8 per cent), TV programmes (56.2 per cent), and daily newspapers (43.2 per cent) are particularly popular among German voters for informing themselves about political topics in the run-up to the German federal election in September 2025.

The “EuroCloud Pulse Check 2024” was presented at this year’s EuroCloud Summit. The study shows that the full potential of cloud technology can only be realized if companies close the internal skills gap.

Dmitry Panenkov, founder and CEO of emma technologies, talks about the new challenges and trends in the cloud management in our eco member interview.

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With just one year to go before the 2025 federal election, there is growing dissatisfaction in Germany with the digital policy of the German traffic light coalition government. After around three years of the coalition government, 86.2 per cent of respondents believe that the federal government is not advancing digital transformation sufficiently.

The Complaints Office of the eco - Association of the Internet Industry presented its report for the year 2023. With 17,493 actionable cases, the eco Complaints Office once again recorded a new peak of notified legal violations on the Internet last year.

This year's Internet Security Days (ISD) 2024 took place under the motto ‘Security as a Gamechanger’. The focus of the industry get-together was on how cybersecurity influences the digitalisation of the economy and society. New technologies, regulations and attack vectors show that digital innovation is only possible on a sustainable basis with reliable protective measures: cybersecurity minimises risks while driving innovation.

The new explainer video of the eco Association's topDNS Initiative explains why domain shutdowns are not a sustainable solution against illegal Internet content. Instead, the principle of "taking down instead of blocking" enables a legal and secure solution.

The German Bundestag is currently debating two draft laws that would grant extensive powers to the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), the federal police and the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF). Klaus Landefeld comments: “(...) new competencies for security authorities must always be accompanied by effective protective measures. This is the only way to maintain society’s trust in modern technologies, especially AI.”  

Tomorrow, EU President Ursula von der Leyen is set to present her new European Commission. In anticipation of this, eco Association is calling for a stronger focus on digital policy and the expansion of Europe’s digital infrastructure

Pornography, violence or depictions of hatred: children and young people can quickly encounter problematic content on the Internet. To protect children and young people, it is important that these contents are reported

DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance) is an email authentication protocol that helps companies protect their domains from email spoofing and phishing attacks by ensuring that only authorised senders can send emails on behalf of the domain.

Dominic Haussmann is a Specialist Solutions Engineer – Zero Trust at Cloudflare with over 15 years of experience in IT security. At this year’s Internet Security Days on 10 and 11 September, he will be delivering the keynote, “Detecting and Defending Against Cyber Threats – Staying One Step Ahead with the Connectivity Cloud”.

The two-day heise Conference S2N covers current topics in data centre IT in four parallel tracks: This ranges from migrating VMware servers to Proxmox, performance analysis for software-defined storage, to managing EVPN fabrics. Practical topics such as ransomware incident response, optimising performance for resource-hungry applications, accurate inventorying with Netbox as a single source of truth in the data centre, or secure data export are also discussed.

The cloud community of the eco – Association of the Internet Industry will meet at the EuroCloud Summit on 26 September in Offenbach.

Dr Christian Reinhardt is the Director of Sales Enablement at SoSafe. In this interview, he gives a foretaste of the keynote speech “Cybercrime Insights – The New Threat Landscape”, which he will be presenting at this year’s ISD on 11 September.

The competition for cybersecurity experts in the job market continues to intensify significantly. Nevertheless, almost half of companies have not yet taken any measures to recruit cybersecurity experts, according to a recent survey by eco – Association of the Internet Industry among business decision-makers.

Under the title “Smart Office, AI & Co. - The Brave New World of Work”, the eco New Work and IoT Competence Groups will be hosting a joint event at Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Böblingen, Germany on 12 September. In the run-up to the event, we conducted an interview with our speaker Marc Hölscher, IT architect at netgo, about the challenges and trends of hybrid work in practice.

eco Association's Leader of the Mobility Competence Group, Juan I. Hahn from HAHN Network, talks in our eco member interview about new challenges and trends in the automotive industry.

dotmagazine is the online international magazine covering Internet industry topics. It features exciting articles from members & partners and covers the entire spectrum of the Internet industry. In this dotmagazine issue, nine leading experts reveal how resilient digital infrastructure is the essential foundation powering innovation, sustainability, and the digital future.

A Civey survey commissioned by eco shows that, despite extensive digitalisation measures, digital health services are only used by a minority of Germans. eco Managing Director Alexander Rabe calls for action: “The German federal government must encourage a new mindset among the population and further catalyse progress so that everyone can benefit from the advantages of digital health services.”

At this year’s Internet Security Days on 10 and 11 September, Sonja Gresser,  IT Security Architect at IBM Security will be giving the presentation on “Better Security in the Age of AI”.

A representative survey* commissioned by eco Association shows that a third of those surveyed (31.3%) do not take any measures to ensure that their holiday photos are as secure as possible online.

A recent representative survey by eco Association, with around 2,500 citizens surveyed by the market and opinion research institute Civey, shows that the German population is still very sceptical about the use of artificial intelligence in schools.

Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) are security protocol extensions for the Domain Name System (DNS), designed to ensure the integrity and authenticity of DNS data. The eco Email Competence Group, Anti-Abuse Competence Group and Names & Numbers are calling for the rapid and widespread introduction and use...

From August 2024, Giovanni Coppa, Digital Innovation Lead at Research Industrial Systems Engineering (RISE), a consultancy for research, development and large-scale projects, will take over the leadership of the IoT Competence Group at the eco Association.

An interview with Juan Hahn about his personal mobility behaviour, the opportunities and challenges of mobility in the future and his goals as the new Mobility Competence Group Leader at the eco Association.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is offering a new and free service for requesting registration data in connection with generic top-level domains (gTLDs).