How can security risks be monitored and managed more efficiently in order to meet stricter regulatory requirements such as the NIS2 Directive and the KRITIS DachG? Maurice Striek from NVISO GmbH talks about this in an eco member interview.

Recruiting suitable IT specialists is becoming increasingly difficult, and this also applies to IT security. In this interview, Carina Franke, Team Leader Recruiting at G DATA CyberDefense AG, provides tips on new approaches in personnel strategy that can be used to counter this trend.

96 per cent of security experts in Germany see a growing threat situation, more than in previous years. 4 per cent believe that the threat situation has remained unchanged, and those surveyed do not see the situation easing. These are the findings of the eco IT Security Survey 2024, which surveyed 226 security experts.

The majority of Germans still don’t back up their data to the cloud, risking the loss of valuable photos, videos and data. This is the result of a recent representative survey conducted by the market and opinion research institute Civey on behalf of eco Association.

How do energy suppliers, who are also telecommunications providers, shape resilient infrastructures? Experts from the eco Networks and KRITIS Competence Groups will discuss this on 16 April at the DE-CIX MeetingCenter in Frankfurt. One of the panellists of the event is Lorenz Grehlich from M-net. In this interview, he provides tips for resilient network infrastructures.

Artificial intelligence (AI) heralds the next evolutionary stage of cybersecurity. How will IT teams defend against cyberattacks in the future? The Security Competence Group of eco - Association of the Internet Industry met for an expert workshop and developed five key theses on how to deal with AI in the IT security landscape.

How is AI changing our security world? This is the question raised by the eco Security Competence Group on 21 February. Three questions for Head of the eco competence group, Oliver Dehning.

Under the motto “Let's talk about porn”, the Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia organised an informative event together with Nathanael Liminski (Minister for German federal government, European affairs, international affairs and media of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia), and Andreas Weiss, Managing Director of eco – Association of the Internet Industry. The discussion focused on challenges and solutions for dealing with content harmful to young people in the digital space.

Approximately one in two Germans (49.2%) use digital services or platforms to manage their own finances. This is the result of a recent representative survey conducted by the market and opinion research institute Civey on behalf of the eco – Association of the Internet Industry.

Olaf Pursche and Oliver Dehning now jointly lead the eco Security Competence Group. Double expertise for IT security in the eco Association: Olaf Pursche, Head of Communications at the Swiss IT Security Group AG, is now leading the eco Security Competence Group together with Oliver Dehning, Specialist for Cloud Security....

One in three Germans (34.4 per cent) stores their online passwords mentally, according to an eco survey conducted on the occasion of Change Your Password Day on 1 February. The eco Association gives three tips for secure passwords.

How can vshosting GmbH, as a managed cloud provider, give German SMEs a competitive advantage? Esther Eggert, Partner Manager DACH at vshosting GmbH, talks about this in an eco member interview.

What is the security situation in the IoT? Eric Clausing, Head of IoT at AV-TEST GmbH, talks about this in a short interview on the occasion of the eco webinar “Security in the IoT – Cyber Resilience Act, what now?”

How can companies effectively protect themselves against cyberthreats? Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in particular are increasingly overwhelmed by the choice of suitable IT security solutions.

Only 40.8 per cent of respondents reported having a maximum of three devices connected to the Internet, with the over-65s in particular using fewer online devices than younger people. These are the findings of a recent survey conducted by the market and opinion research institute Civey on behalf of the eco – Association of the Internet Industry.

Modern fire protection contributes to sustainability, says Anne Omar, data centre expert at FOGTEC, in an eco member interview.

Since the beginning of the year, doctors have been obliged to issue e-prescriptions that can be redeemed in pharmacies using an app or the electronic health card (eGK). The majority of Germans (53.7 per cent) welcome this and say they would like to use e-prescriptions digitally in the future.

73.6 per cent of IT decision-makers see artificial intelligence (AI) as the most influential trend for business IT in 2024. eco Association gives 5 recommendations on how companies can benefit from new AI applications in 2024.

DNS resolvers themselves are not considered to be perpetrators when copyrights are infringed online via a domain, ruled the Higher Regional Court of Dresden, thereby overturning the previous judgements of the lower courts.

The resilience of IT infrastructures remains a challenge for the economy. This is shown by a recent eco survey. 75.2 per cent of IT experts in Germany see potential for improvement when it comes to arming them against cyberattacks.

Attacks on IT supply chains have been on the rise for years, according to the experts from the IT Security Competence Group of the eco Association at their meeting in November. In Cologne-Ehrenfeld, the experts developed holistic and proactive strategies to effectively protect their own IT, summarising their findings in six key points.

38.1 per cent pay attention to different payment methods when shopping on the Internet Relevant reviews from 36.4 per cent of other shoppers eco Association gives 7 tips for shopping on Black Friday without concerns With the Christmas shopping season beginning on Black Friday, 80.6 per cent of online shoppers are...

Sunita Ute Saxena is responsible for Public Safety, Governance and Critical Infrastructure at Deutsche Telekom Security GmbH. On 29 November, she will be speaking at the KRITIS Competence Group meeting in Cologne regarding the KRITIS Umbrella Act and the status of NIS2 transposition in Germany. She covers three questions about what this will entail.

Matthias Riedel, Head of Solution Advisory Digital Supply Chain at SAP will give the presentation “Future Proof your Supply Chain with SAP” at the CG Security Competence Meeting on 22 November 2023. In an eco interview, he talks about current security threats and the future development of the security landscape of digital supply chains.

At the beginning of the 2023 heating season, only 8 per cent of Germans use smart heating thermostats that can be controlled via an app. Just a few take advantage of other digital solutions to save energy: 11.2 per cent of Germans control their lighting using motion detectors, while 10.3 per cent use smart shower heads. Additionally, only 7 per cent control their sockets via an app.

In September 2023, the Internet Security Days (ISDs) once again attracted IT security experts, security managers and user companies to meet together at Phantasialand near Cologne, Germany.  Around 250 participants on each day of the event had a choice of 40 exciting presentations and panel discussions. There were two parallel presentation tracks on four main topics: Achieving the State of the Art, Future Security, Digital Supply Chain Security and Connected Security.

The eco - Association of the Internet Industry has been surveying Germany's IT security experts for over 10 years. In addition to the dominant IT security topics and most important threats, they also assess the ability of German companies to fend off cyberattacks. The IT Security Survey 2024 has now started.

Germans do not adequately back up their photos and videos from family holidays or family celebrations on their smartphones. According to a representative survey of 2,506 Germans conducted by the opinion research institute Civey on behalf of eco – Association of the Internet Industry, only 22.5 per cent use cloud services for storing private media.

Anne Hennig is a Research Associate at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and supervises the INSPECTION research project. At this year’s Internet Security Days (ISD) on 21 and 22 September, she will give a presentation on the project. Together with her colleague Dr Peter Mayer, she explains in an eco interview what INSEPCTION is and why it can be an effective addition to already existing IT security approaches.

Tarek Nemri is an IT Security Consultant at plusserver gmbh, where he advises clients on IT security solutions and the associated processes. At this year’s Internet Security Days, he will give a presentation on “Digitalisation, data sovereignty and the cloud – your chance, surely and securely!” and tells us in an eco interview how cloud services can be important in terms of IT security.