Feature Consumer Protection Together for the Good of the Internet Alexandra Koch-Skiba from the eco Complaints Office, on 25 years’ cooperation with providers and law enforcement, and minimizing risks for young people online.
Domains European Resolver Policy The new policy provides reassurance as to the protection of personal data gained in the operation of DNS resolution services, explains Andrew Campling from 419 Consulting.
Security Governments are Embracing Hacking: What does that Mean for Everyone Else? Governments’ eagerness to avail of hacking has helped generate a dubious ‘grey market’ for zero-day vulnerabilities, warns Ryan Polk from the Internet Society.
Feature Data Center To Lie or Not to Lie – Transparency and Trust in Data Center Crisis Management eco DCSA Auditor & independent consultant Gerd Simon, on vital processes and communication for managing data center crises, and the impact on business value.
Feature Email Marketing A New Way of Thinking – Email Sender Certification 2.0 Sebastian Kluth from the CSA outlines the evolution of attitudes in email marketing, and the changing deal between email marketeers and mailbox providers.
Artificial Intelligence The AI Privacy Dilemma Can we have advanced efficient Artificial Intelligence while protecting digital privacy? Rainer Sträter from 1&1 IONOS and Dr. Leif-Nissen Lundbæk from Xayn give us their answer.
Feature Data Protection & Privacy Laying the Ground in Brussels: On the Path to Europe’s Digital Data Decade? Oliver Süme, Partner at Fieldfisher and Chair of the eco Association, provides an overview of the varied legislative initiatives at EU level for paving the way to a digital future in Europe.
Feature IoT Security by Design – New Security Testing Standard for IoT Devices Tatjana Hein and Cornelia Schildt from the eco Association give an insight into the development of a security standard and label for IoT.
Security Smartphones as Wallet for the Future? Christian Lueg from ESET sheds light on what our smartphone knows about us, and how to improve privacy and security on it.
Domains Congratulations on Your New Business – We Need to Talk Kelly Hardy from CentralNic provides cybercrime advice for end customers and clients operating businesses online during the pandemic boom.
Feature Cloud Computing Baking Security into the Cloud: DevSecOps and Cloud Native Developers, operations professionals, and security experts need to work hand-in-hand in the public cloud to ensure the security of applications, writes Nils Klute from EuroCloud.
Feature Internet Industry International Collaboration – Call for Contributions To fully unleash the potential of digitalization, and to ensure that the Internet is a force for global good, we need to work together across borders. As a digital company, organization, or association, if you’re involved in an international or cross-border dialogue, exchange, or alliance – tell us your story in dotmagazine!
Feature GAIA-X The Finance Sector Embraces Technical Innovation with GAIA-X The financial industry is building a strong use case for the European data infrastructure project GAIA-X based on the benefits of digital ecosystems, comments Harald A. Summa from DE-CIX.
Cloud Computing Keeping Players Online: Creating Provider Ecosystems for Hybrid Game Hosting Evelien Smeenk from i3D.net looks at how platform orchestration can grant access to diverse actors rather than searching for a single “holy grail” hosting solution.
Feature Diversity Women in Tech: How a Digital Ecosystem Can Come Full Circle Promoting women in tech should not be about fixing women – it means fixing structures in a way that will benefit everyone, reports Lucia Falkenberg from eco.
Internet Industry Answering to the Connectivity Needs of SMEs in Lockdown Blacknight’s Michele Neylon explains how supporting SMEs during the pandemic has opened up new fields of business and new partnerships for the connectivity provider.
Artificial Intelligence An AI-based Service Ecosystem for Industry 4.0 Enabling a shift in the supply structure from pure products to smart services is central to supporting industry with digitalization. Service-Meister presents a user-centric platform-economic solution.
Feature Cyber Security Hand in Hand for Secure Websites – Making the Internet Safer Open source CMS communities like TYPO3 are working with the eco Association to improve security for commercial and private websites, reports Markus Schaffrin from eco.
Diversity Women in Digital Ecosystems Jutta Horstmann from eyeo describes the challenges of managing remote locations around the world, and the need to take diverse lifestyles into account to promote parity in teams.
Feature Digital Infrastructure Leveraging Digital Ecosystems in the New Normal Ivo Ivanov from DE-CIX, on how data gravity and diversity in ecosystems, together with secure interconnection, provide the ideal breeding ground for digital business.
Multi Cloud IG BCE Bonus Agency and x-ion Interconnect an Entire Industry Christopher Bittles from x-ion shows how collective industry solutions can be implemented in the care insurance industry to meet changing customer expectations.
Feature Artificial Intelligence Turning Customer Concerns into Supplier Interests: Using AI to Create a Service Ecosystem SMEs can use AI to create their own service ecosystem by analyzing their customers’ concerns and offering them AI-powered solutions, explains Nils Klute from EuroCloud.
Artificial Intelligence Bias in AI Decisions – Causes and Countermeasures Ludwig Brummer from Alexander Thamm GmbH looks at where bias in AI decisions can come from and how to deal with algorithmic bias in practice.
Encryption The Assault on Encryption, and Why It’s Bad for your Business Restricting encryption is a danger for human rights and public safety, but will also be disastrous for the wider Internet industry, warns Sheetal Kumar from Global Partners Digital.
Data Center Toward Green Digitalization: How Data Centers Help Create a Sustainable IT Infrastructure To meet their own sustainability targets, businesses want digital infrastructure and services from sustainable suppliers, explains Jens-Peter Feidner from Equinix.
Green IT Why Cooperation Enables Sustainable Digitalization Guenter Eggers from NTT Global Data Centers looks at how energy-efficient colocation data centers and collaboration environments promote sustainability in industry.
Green IT Driving Green Innovation in the Cloud Computing Industry Bernd Brunner of LIMEBIRD explains in interview how cloud providers and data centers can reduce their carbon footprint in concert with renewable energy providers.
Digital Transformation Wake-up Call from the Biosphere: Living Digitally and Sustainably in a Better World “We need to understand digital progress for what it is: the lever to greater sustainability,” says Karl-Heinz Land, in an interview with Nils Klute of eurocloud.de.
Diversity Improving Diversity in the Workplace Gain great insights into what we can do to help improve diversity in the workplace in this article from Sarah Wyld from Tucows and Jennifer Doubrava from cPanel.
Feature Data Center Shining a Light on Sustainable Heat & Energy – A Data Center Perspective Dr. Béla Waldhauser from Telehouse and the Alliance for the Strengthening of Digital Infrastructures looks at the opportunities for data centers to contribute to a green future.
Feature Digital Transformation Digital Everywhere, for Everyone Digital business has definitively become the backbone of economic growth for the future, and no sector can afford not to be on the path to digitalization, says Ivo Ivanov, CEO of DE-CIX International.
Artificial Intelligence The Open Source Curriculum for Corporate Training on AI and Digitalization Dr. Fred Jopp, Hauke Timmermann, Christine Neubauer & Andreas Weiss present an advanced training approach on AI in technical service, developed to support SMEs in closing the skills gap and keeping abreast of digitalization.
Domains Sustainability Reporting: dotBERLIN’s Journey to More Sustainability Dirk Krischenowski from dotBERLIN takes us through the steps in assessing company sustainability, taking action & developing a roadmap to become a wholly sustainable company by 2025.
Feature New Work Life as We Know It & The Brave New World of Work The world of work will change massively in the course of digitalization – work will not disappear, but will be transformed & lifelong learning will become a basic prerequisite for future professional success, explains Lucia Falkenberg from eco & DE-CIX.
Feature Digitalization Shaping our Digital Future – Why We Should Invite Ourselves to the Party CEO of eco and DE-CIX, Harald A. Summa offers a vision of how we can work together with transparency, openness, and cooperation to create a digital future beneficial for everyone.
Cyber Security Sanitizing Files to Prevent the Spread of Malware Omri Eytan from odix explains how content disarm and reconstruct (CDR) technology can prevent malicious code hidden in files from entering company systems.
Internet Industry Diversity in the Internet Industry: How to Crack the Glass Ceiling Peter Janze, Managing Director of digital@M GmbH on the importance of harnessing diversity in the Internet industry – and how setting ambitious targets is essential in order to achieve this.
Feature New Work Corona Times: A Turning Point for Diversity? Lucia Falkenberg, eco Chief People Officer, explains exactly why the Internet industry needs more diversity – and how New Work approaches can help companies turn the corner in creating a more diverse workforce.
Internet Industry Clearing the Path for Women in Tech In interview, Agnes Heftberger, Vice-President of Sales with IBM DACH, emphasizes how far we still need to go to achieve gender equality – and offers tips on how to lay the groundwork for this journey.
Security Saving your Data for the Day After Tomorrow In 2019, a record 50 exabyte of data was delivered on tape globally. Melina Schnaudt from Fujifilm Recording Media GmbH explains why tape is standard in the field of data archiving now and will continue to be in the future.
Cloud Computing Cloud Native: Giving Customers and Applications a Chance to Breathe An interview with Heiko Henkes from ISG Germany and Dr. Nils Kaufmann, Head of EuroCloud Native on what’s needed to digitalize customer relationships and evaluate data-based product lifecycles effectively.
GAIA-X GAIA-X: A European Voice for the Cloud In interview with eurocloud.de, Dr. Martin Endress from IONOS explains how GAIA-X can whet enterprises’ appetite for increased cloud transformation.
Branding Holiday Shoppers Beware: Domain Spoofing Risks Vincent D’Angelo, Quinn Taggart and Sue Watts from CSC offer tips for global brand owners and consumers to safeguard against domain security threats.
Email Best Practices How to Build a Bridge – A Sender’s and Receiver’s Perspective For email to continue to thrive as a communication medium, both senders and receivers need to consider each other’s perspective. Marcel Becker, Verizon, Clea Moore and Heather Goff, Oracle, look at how to bridge the current gaps.
Future of Email Customer Expectations – Surprising Facts about the Reality in People’s Inboxes How can ESPs make people fall back in love with email? Dr. Conny Junghans & Arne Allisat of 1&1 share learnings from their experience in handling millions of emails daily.
Cyber Security SHIELD: An Open Platform for Secure Digital Identities For digitalization to progress, there is need for reliable and secure identification: Michaela Templin from the eco Association reports on the progress of one digital ID project.
Artificial Intelligence Cancel Culture for Artificial Intelligence or Just Handcuffs? If AI systems are not transparent and their benefits are unclear, trust falls by the wayside, writes Dr. Fred Jopp from USU Software AG.
Feature GAIA-X The Economy with GAIA-X: Digital, Innovative, Sustainable How do we make digitalization a driver of sustainability? Why are digital and sustainable transformation essential? And why does this require digital sovereignty? Nils Klute from EuroCloud reports on the answers provided at the German Digital Summit 2020.
Email The Future of Email is Dynamic Interact with your email without leaving your inbox – Jon Harmer, Product Lead for AMP for Email at Google gives examples of applications for the protocol that enables real-time updates and interactivity in dynamic emails.
Branding The Value of Domain Names Nadine Jäger and Marco Hoffmann from InterNetX discuss understanding domain names as company assets, how to calculate their value, and how to monetize them.
Branding Corporate Domain Name Management: 7 Steps for Uncovering and Remediating Risks Elisa Cooper from GoDaddy explains that domain management is not simply about set-and-forget: more is needed to maintain the value & function of your domains.
Branding Three Ways to Protect Your Brand Katrin Ohlmer from DOTZON offers advice on approaches to securing and protecting your brand name and trademark online.
Branding Branding meets Domain – The Strategy around Desktop.com Christian Voss from Sedo discusses with client Rolf Larsen from Desktop.com how to find and obtain the perfect keyword domain for creating an inspiring brand name.
Domains The Importance of a Domain Name and a Trademark to Protect your European Brand When creating a new company and brand, Reelika Kirna from EURid vzw, and Inge Buffolo from EUIPO, advise securing the most applicable domain name for your brand and protecting it with a trademark.
Feature Email Best Practices Email Marketing and Covid-19 – Building Trust Higher open and click rates but also higher risks during the Covid-19 pandemic: Sebastian Kluth from the CSA advises on how brands can build trust with email.
Domains Founder spotlight: Unique Ideas with Creative Domains Domains registry donuts focuses on the stories of both women and minority-owned businesses and their creative use of domains in their brand building — while also ensuring protection against abuse of their name.
Domains Boost Your Brand and Raise the Bar for Fraud – the Benefits of a dotBRAND Martin Kuechenthal from LEMARIT explains how your own brand as a top-level domain prevents fraud and increases brand awareness.
Branding Preventing Counterfeiting and IP Abuse with Customer Engagement Companies ignore brand protection and the problem of counterfeiting at their own and their customers’ risk, explains Stuart Fuller from CentralNic.
Email Marketing Combining Brand Visibility, Deliverability and Email Security Romina Gansbühler from the Witt-Gruppe, on the positive impact of BIMI on email marketing and security as well as customer protection.
Domains Mitigating Risks for Brands with Smart Domain Management Tactics and Tools Birgit Berger and Natalie Berrisford of InterNetX outline how a professional approach to domain management is essential for brands to handle their online reputation today.
Email Delivery and Deliverability: The Silver Bullet to Email Marketing Success? Alice Cornell from Change.org and Tamara Bond from dotdigital debunk the biggest myths in the email marketing industry and offer tips on consistently reaching the inbox.
DDoS The Most Dangerous DDoS Attacks of our Time Dmitry Samoshkin from G-Core Labs advises on what you need to know about DDoS attacks and how to prepare for them.
Feature Cloud Computing The 7 Challenges Facing Cloud Native Service Providers Cloud native start-ups are usually too small to have their voices featured in major projects and heard by hyperscalers. EuroCloud wants to change that, explain Dr. Nils Kaufmann and Thomas Noglik.
Industrial IoT The Future of Production – Intelligent Networking & Digital Orientation Edge computing, cloud, 5G, and artificial intelligence are the driving forces in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to optimize production processes, writes Tatjana Hein from the eco Association.
Diversity Making the Dream of Gender Parity Reality in the Tech World Agustina Callegari from the Internet Society explains the need for women in leadership, both in volunteer communities and in the workforce, and how this goal can be reached.
Feature Diversity Rallying for Women to Rise up the Ranks Eilín Geraghty and Lars Steffen from the eco Association, on how to tackle the glass ceiling in the tech industry and develop a virtuous circle for women in leadership positions.
IoT Logistics and IoT: How the Internet of Things makes logistics manageable IoT makes logistics smart, sustainable, and socially responsible – digital solutions synchronize the flow of goods and information over the Internet & automate processes, explains Nils Klute from EuroCloud.
Feature Digital Infrastructure Latency – The Physical Necessity of Getting Closer to Users Dr. Christoph Dietzel from DE-CIX looks at why interconnection needs are moving closer to the user, and what the next steps in the interconnection future will be.
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Feature Diversity Women in Tech – How to Get Started Why you should be promoting gender diversity in your company, and how to take the first steps, explain Eilín Geraghty & Lars Steffen from the eco Association.
Feature Email Marketing How Not to Get Your Fingers Burned When Sending Commercial Emails The legal team of the CSA Complaints Office looks at the importance of consent, documentation, and opting in and out for senders of commercial emails.
Company Security Why More and More Companies Move their Data to Tape 2019 was a record-breaking year for tape technology: never before has so much capacity been delivered on tape. Melina Schnaudt from Fujifilm Recording Media GmbH shows why.
Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence and the Law: What AI Users in SMEs Should Know As long as there are no AI regulations, the requirements can only be derived from the applicable laws, according to Dr. Lutz M. Keppeler, specialist lawyer for IT law, in an interview with Nils Klute from EuroCloud.
Feature Domains DNS over HTTPS: Agreeing to Almost Agree Achieving consensus means all sides have to feel equal amounts of pain, admits Thomas Rickert from the eco Association.
Email How to Find the Right Email Service Provider Sending quality marketing emails is about more than just a pretty design – and finding the right service provider is an important step, says Sebastian Kluth from the CSA.
Feature Encryption Bringing DoH to Market – The Story of Promoting Privacy and Making Waves Patrick Koetter from the eco Association tells the story of the emergence of the DoH protocol as a privacy-enhancing technique, and the diverse reactions to it around the world.
Domains How to Succeed Online when Launching or Renaming a Brand In the digital economy, naming has strategic importance in terms of the economic potential of the brand and potential legal hurdles, Matthieu Aubert from SafeBrands explains.
Artificial Intelligence Unconscious Bias and AI Senior Manager for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at Deutsche Telekom IT, Kenza Ait Si Abbou Lyadini, explains how bias can be embedded into algorithms.
Cyber Security The Current Situation of IoT Security and What to Do Hardly any IT market sector in recent years has experienced growth rates like those in IoT, but securing networked devices and IoT structures still lags behind, explains Olaf Pursche from the AV-Test Institute.
Company Security IT Security in Companies – Untrained, it is a Simple Attack Vector When it comes to IT security, you cannot be too careful, explains Detlev Weise from exploqii – a KnowBe4 company.
Feature Contributing to dotmagazine - dot-community How is the Internet industry community working together to create a better Internet & what needs to be done? Tell us!
Data Protection & Privacy Security & Privacy Champions Bringing Awareness to Teams Peter Meyer from eyeo explains why the world needs more champions, and the value of approaching security and data protection at the team level.
Company Security Customer Fail-Story: Fail with Phishing Simulations – Or Celebrate Success David Kelm from IT-Seal provides a vivid illustration of how important well-implemented phishing simulations are for staff IT security awareness.
Company Security Phishing in the Pandemic – How Hackers Exploit the ‘Human Factor’ Dr. Niklas Hellemann from SoSafe GmbH, on the psychology of cyber attacks and security awareness, and the growing sophistication of phishing.
Diversity On Motivation and Innovation – Creating Diversity in the Tech Industry Yuliia Diachuk from MoBerries provides insight into the challenges women face in rising up the ranks in the tech industry, and what the key to success is for teams and companies.
Company Security Creating a “Human Firewall” for IT Security Psychologist and social engineer Christina Lekati from Cyber Risk GmbH explains the psychological basis of phishing and how to arm staff with effective defenses.
Company Security 12 Steps to Successful Information Security Management for SMEs Carsten Marmulla and Simon Decker from carmasec GmbH & Co. KG offer a new approach for SMEs that are facing the uphill battle of getting their company ready for ISM certification.
Feature Data Center Data Centers in a Changing World Dr. Béla Waldhauser from Telehouse & the Alliance for the Strengthening of Digital Infrastructures on the energy consumption and energy-saving potential of data centers and digitalization.
Cloud Computing Cloud Natives to Acquire a Voice of their Own To pave the way for a better understanding of public cloud potential, cloud natives need their own platform, explain Dr. Nils Kaufmann and Thomas Noglik of EuroCloud. The solution? The new Cloud Native initiative.
Networks Business Continuity in Lockdown Shifting workloads, managing security breaches, and serving customers remotely – Sylvia List from NTT Germany explains companies’ evolving reactions to lockdown.
Feature Networks Why Low Latency is Essential in Times of Accelerated Digitalization Dr. Thomas King from DE-CIX explains the importance of latency in the digital world and shows how applications depend on low-latency for a seamless user experience.
Diversity Time to Break the Mold: Boost the Tech World with Female Role Models Deepa Gautum-Nigge, Global Lead SAP, on the importance of visible female role models for busting age-old gender stereotypes in the workplace.
Cloud Computing The Key to an Effective Cloud Strategy BSO’s Continental Europe Sales Director, Thomas Lanaute, shares his insights on the main elements and pitfalls to consider when making the move to the cloud.
Industrial IoT Shaping the Digital Production Age Rudolf Preuss, CEO of Arendar IT-Security Ltd., explains how cybercrime is challenging today’s manufacturing landscape and how to protect industrial production from attacks.
Feature IoT Securing IoT: Closing the Gateway into the Company Network Maik Morgenstern, CTO of the AV-TEST Institute, reports on how the AV-ATLAS collects data about attacks on the Internet of Things (IoT) and supports in defending against them.
Feature Cloud Computing Do Systems Integrators Still Have a Future in the Cloud? Systems integrators are the backbone for the digitalization of SMEs. Now they themselves are struggling with change: Felix Höger from eco presents 5 challenges for the sector.
Feature Email Branding Success: A Logo Delights Marketers, Techies, and Email Recipients Alike BIMI helps brands to communicate better and emails to be more secure, Sebastian Kluth from the CSA explains.
Artificial Intelligence AI meets Distributed Ledger: Building Marketplaces, Sharing Data, and Breaking Silos Artificially intelligent decisions must be trustworthy, both to gain acceptance & acceptability and to advance Europe as a leader in AI, says Prof. Ali Sunyaev from KIT.
Feature Digital Infrastructure Why the Internet Holds Firm: Internet Infrastructure in Times of Covid-19 Dr. Christoph Dietzel from DE-CIX investigates how much short-term growth the Internet can actually sustain, and what the limiting factors are.
Diversity Women in Leadership: The Only Way is Up Simone Menne, former CFO of Lufthansa and member of multiple supervisory boards, on the importance of striving for a 50/50 gender balance on teams – and how to do this.
Feature Diversity How to Enhance Gender Diversity in Your Company: Start with a Plan A company seeking to enhance gender diversity shouldn’t just act sporadically, as pointed out in a case study by Erica Varlese from Automattic, which shows that goal-setting is what can make all the difference.
Artificial Intelligence Trusting in AI: Why Algorithms Have to Explain Themselves Wherever AI supports people, above all trust is needed in the technology. Nils Klute of the eco Association explains how we can test and certify trusted AI applications.
Digital Transformation How Innovative Information Management Stands the Test of Time There has always been a need to get value out of information, but the methods we use need to adapt to changing times, as Jos Bischoff, CEO of BCT, explains on the occasion of his company’s 35th anniversary.
Feature Data Protection & Privacy GDPR Two Years On: Companies Still Facing Uncertainty eco Legal Counsel Clarissa Benner takes stock of two years of the GDPR and explains why companies are still facing uncertainties with its implementation.
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Recruitment Minor Changes Can Have a Major Impact on Gender Diversity in Recruitment A case study by Wido Potters from BIT BV, showing how easy it is for recruiters to make companies more attractive to female applicants, and why this is important.
Feature Digital Infrastructure Unlocking a New Digital Age In a time of crisis, a global lockdown needs a digital unlocking, explains Ivo Ivanov, CEO of DE-CIX International.
Digital Infrastructure The Internet was Built for This John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare, offers insight into the changing traffic patterns and changing online behavior through the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.
Cyber Security Attacks On Corporate Cloud Accounts as Companies Work From Home A new research study by cyber security specialist McAfee reports on online behavior and cyber security trends during the COVID-19 crisis.
Feature Diversity Accessing the World’s Greatest Untapped Pool of Talent to Face Tomorrow’s Challenges Lucia Falkenberg of the eco Association on how eco's new international study on Women in Tech can help companies to find and retain female talents – and reap the rewards for doing so.
Women in Tech Connecting for a Better Future dotmagazine spoke to Inger Paus from the Vodafone Institute on digitalization, social inclusion, and the impact of digital skepticism on women in the tech industry.
Artificial Intelligence AI: A New General-Purpose Technology Ingobert Veith from HUAWEI offers insight into the benefits of AI, together with 5G and IoT technologies – for everything from networks to autonomous driving, and on to fighting COVID-19.
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