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Industry in Europe: Ransomware hits OT almost as often as IT 
Industry in Europe: Ransomware hits OT almost as often as IT

In Europe, ransomware hits industrial control systems and operating technology almost as often as IT systems. Significant disruption in every second victim. Claroty initiated study The Global State of Industrial Cybersecurity 2021: Resilience Amid Disruption. Ransomware is also increasingly becoming a problem for industrial systems and critical infrastructure: 80 percent of KRITIS operators and companies that make a significant contribution to critical infrastructure fell victim to a ransomware attack last year. This is the conclusion of the study "The Global State of Industrial...

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Privacy advocates will have a hard time in 2022
Privacy advocates will have a hard time in 2022

The widespread use of Microsoft in German companies poses a challenge for data protection officers. According to Detlef Schmuck: "Data protection is on fire in many German companies." Especially since the EU-US Privacy Shield was declared invalid two years ago. "The role of data protection officers in companies will become more difficult in the new year," says data security expert Detlef Schmuck, managing director of the German data service TeamDrive GmbH. Above all, the widespread use of software from the US provider Microsoft in the German economy is an increasing problem because it poses the risk that personal…

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Kaspersky: 10 impulses for German and European cybersecurity policy
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Kaspersky publishes 10 impulses on German and European cybersecurity policy. After the general election, the new federal government will have to cope with many challenges in cybersecurity policy and set the course for the coming years. As a stimulus for this discussion, Kaspersky has now published an impulse paper. It contains ten points on cyber security policy. Kaspersky addresses, among other things, the IT and cybersecurity skills shortage, the need to catch up on the topic of digital security within society, the insufficient establishment of security-by-design as a design principle in the development of new technologies and solutions, and the still lacking cyber resilience in medium-sized businesses. In addition, the digitization of ...

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