Tag: it-security

Personal liability of the management bodies The NIS 2 Directive introduces new personal liability for management bodies for the implementation of cyber security measures. This means that board members and managing directors can be held...

Over the past six months, we have held numerous discussions with medium-sized organisations of various sizes that would like to take out new cybersecurity insurance or adapt existing policies. The consistent tenor that we have...

The second version of the Network and Information Security Directive (NIS 2) came into force in the EU at the beginning of 2023. The EU member states must transpose NIS 2 into national law by...

Although the new year is already a few days old, annual kick-off events are still in full swing everywhere. So we too have been thinking about what to expect in terms of information and IT...

Conversion to the latest version of the standard Companies that are certified according to the international standard ISO 27001 will have to think about converting their ISMS to the latest version of the standard in...

Cybersecurity experts from around the world gathered in Nashville, Tennessee from 25-27 October for this year’s ISC2 Secure Congress. It became clear that the information and IT security community cannot ignore the topic of Artificial...

Cloud security myth busted: Common misconceptions about security ownership in the cloud In recent years, cloud technology has become one of the most important and widely used IT infrastructures. Organisations of all sizes are taking...

A few months ago, BR reported on attacks that work very similarly to the analogue “grandson trick”. Attackers pretend to be a close family member, claiming to be in an emergency situation – and in...

“37.0 percent of companies in Germany do not regularly train their employees on topics such as spam or phishing. (…) Only every third company (35.5 percent) has a patch management policy. Yet security gaps in...

Detect threats with a SIEM system A security information and event management (SIEM) system is a powerful solution that helps organisations detect, monitor and respond to threats to their information security. It enables the centralised...