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The Importance of SME’s Cybersecurity
by Marius Goeddert
Complete the following sentence: “Cybersecurity is... / is not...” Cybersecurity is... Cybersecurity is really hard. One of the things that I think we should never forget, we exist in an imperfect world. Security controls are varied and complex, and we face every day a dynamic and relentless adversary. So I always tell people cybersecurity is really, really hard and it needs us all to work together to make it a little bit easier for some of us. What prompted you to work in cybersecurity? I think I was first prompted to work in cybersecurity many, many years...
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Countering State-Sponsored Cyber Attacks
by Marius Goeddert
  What makes Nation State Actors so special compared to other threat actors? I think it's important to understand the differences between the different threat actor groups, I think is super important for a CISO. Those are usually seen as the following. We have the insiders, on the one hand, the attack comes from the inside. So it's an employee which intentionally, accidentally or abused from the outside helps on an attack. We've seen this in the Ukraine situation. So latest since then, this is a concern. The second group that CISOs are concerned about is the...
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Impressions from the European Identity and Cloud Conference 2021
by Marius Goeddert
The European Identity & Cloud Conference 2021 was a major success. Get an impression of the conference now to prepare for the 15th European Identity and Cloud Conference !
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GDP R U Compliant?
by Marius Goeddert
Almost one and a half years after the introduction of GDPR (EU General Data Protection Regulation), some companies still struggle with implementing appropriate measures to deal with Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in a compliant fashion. Last week the Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of the city state Berlin Maja Smoltczyk imposed a 195,000 euro fine on the German food delivery service provider Delivery Hero after it had committed a series of data protection law violations with its subsidiaries Foodora, Lieferheld and Pizza.de. It is Germany’s...