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Call for contributions from eco member companies and specialists on the benefits of security for IT, IoT, and Internet infrastructure in a changing world.

Feature Email Marketing

Email as a Marketing Tool

How can commercial senders of email get the most out of email as a marketing tool? Maike Marx reports from the CSA Digital Email Summit 2021.

Digital Transformation

The Paperless Office – from Vision to Reality

Goodbye faltering workflows – hello electronic signature! Whitney Bouck, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of HelloSign, a Dropbox company, shares her thoughts on the paperless office.

Feature Networks

New Hope from Space

Ivo Ivanov from DE-CIX, on how satellite infrastructure will support bringing the digital universe of services to the user – wherever necessary.

GAIA-X

SCS – “Stacking sovereignty” for Gaia-X applications

Stephan Ilaender, CTO of plusserver, reports on how the Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) supports the success of Gaia-X.

Feature Digital Transformation

Digitalizing Hotels – New Six-Star Hospitality in the Post-Pandemic World

While digitalizing travel will help keep workers and travellers safe as borders re-open, the future holds much more promise for the digital hotel, reports Ivo Ivanov from DE-CIX.

Edge Computing

Edge: Counter-Revolution or Evolution?

On behalf of the eco Academy, Anne Noelling provides an introduction to the concept of the edge and how companies can begin to develop edge computing scenarios.

GAIA-X

Gaia-X – A Matter of Trust

Creating value collaboratively and driving competition requires decentralized approaches and trust, maintains Nils Klute from EuroCloud.

Feature Notice & Takedown

Borderless Fight Against Illegal Content

For over 20 years, the international INHOPE network has been successfully working to combat depictions of the abuse of minors, says Peter-Paul Urlaub from the eco Complaints Office.

Feature GAIA-X

Europe's Next-Generation Cloud Infrastructure

The EU has recognized the importance of the cloud for Europe’s common good, reports Andreas Weiss from the eco Association – with ambitious goals for the next five years.

Feature Networks

Southern Europe – a Pivotal Region for Global Data Traffic

Location is becoming vital for the delivery of digital content and services, says Theresa Bobis from DE-CIX, and Southern Europe is ideally placed for global traffic flows.

Internet Governance

Data, Collaboration and Internet Society Pulse

The Internet's distributed and synergistic nature makes measuring individual aspects of the Internet on a global scale difficult, explains Susannah Gray from the Internet Society.

GAIA-X

Open, Standardized and Interoperable: How Gaia-X will Enable Competition and Boost the Economy

“If value creation migrates to software, the cloud becomes more important,” says Dr. Oliver Mauss from plusserver, in interview with Nils Klute from EuroCloud.

Feature Digital Inclusion

Universal Acceptance and the Magic of Inclusivity

Everyone has different ideas on “doing it right”, but being inclusive with UA should figure on every developer’s list, says Lars Steffen from the eco Association.

Diversity

Diversity in Tech: Lessons to Learn and Share Among Companies, At Home and Abroad

Sara Weber, Senior Managing Editor at LinkedIn, on how collaboration is key to New Work and why visibility plays a major role in enhancing diversity.

Internet Industry

The European Champions Alliance – Campaigning for European Sovereignty

Andrea Bauer-Vaugan from the ECA & Lucie Poisson from IONOS show why the European tech ecosystem built by the ECA is crucial for European sovereignty.

Feature Blockchain

The eco Blockchain Governance Framework – eBGF

Prof. Norbert Pohlmann & the team from if(is) explain how eco’s Governance Framework creates a root of trust for the operation of a consortial blockchain.

Feature Data Protection & Privacy

Legal Frameworks for International Data Transfer

Outside the scope of the GDPR, senders need to carefully research how to legally share data across borders, explains Astrid Braken from the CSA.

Digital Infrastructure

Hello Car

Ivo Ivanov from DE-CIX, on providing car makers with high-performance, reliable & secure interconnection to enhance their cars and protect their customers.

Digital Transformation

Digital Transformation in the Post-Pandemic Future

New survey reveals how Covid-19 has caused long term change in working patterns and sparked a surge of investment in digital infrastructure, reports Jens-Peter Feidner from Equinix.

Diversity

Women in STEM – Two Worlds Colliding?

Margit Stumpp from the German Green Party, on dismantling outdated gender roles and creating framework conditions for equality for women and minorities.

Industrial IoT

Interfaces, Integration, and Interoperability for AI Tools

The Service-Meister team, on creating templates and all necessary blueprints to realize the vision of Service 4.0.

Internet Industry

Visions of the Past and the Future

What impact has the Internet had over the past 25 years, and where will it take us in the future? A report on the societal importance of the Internet.

Artificial Intelligence

UX4AI: New Rules of the Game for humankind and Machines

The interface between man and machine must be continuously redefined and AI must involve humans in decisions, reports Nils Klute from EuroCloud.

Feature E-Health

Why Healthcare can Benefit from AI

Machine learning and voice assistants are essential to digitalizing care, as is digital infrastructure, explains Dr. Bettina Horster from the eco Association and VIVAI AG.

Feature Industrial IoT

Gaia-X to Harmonize Europe’s Manufacturing

Connecting plants across the board to manufacture with greater resilience – Nils Klute from EuroCloud reports on how Gaia-X can harmonize Europe’s manufacturing networks.

E-Mobility

Data as the Key to Connected Mobility

The Mobility Data Space, guided by the European cloud project Gaia-X, offers a foundation for furthering the digitalization of mobility, reports Tatjana Hein from the eco Association.

Industrial IoT

Four Steps on the Path to the Smart Factory

Smart manufacturing offers companies many opportunities to expand or even completely reinvent their business model. Florian Weigmann from plusserver explains how to get started.

Feature Diversity

A New Era in Tech for Business, Society – and for Women

Claudia Pohlink, Head of Artificial Intelligence with T-Labs, offers insights into how AI and quantum computing stand to benefit our future - as does the prospect of having more women in tech.

GAIA-X

Between Utopia and Reality: Gaia-X Is Bringing the Dynamic Cloud within Reach

Gaia-X is bringing the dynamic cloud within reach – and may soon offer an exciting new future in cloud computing, reports Marcus Busch from Leaseweb Deutschland.

Feature Digital Transformation

Digital Trade Routes: Everything Always Available Immediately

Companies and industries that depend on reliable digital trade routes should invest in their own and sovereign digital infrastructure, according to Harald A. Summa, CEO of eco and DE-CIX.

Feature Artificial Intelligence

Building Blocks for Technical Service 4.0

The Service-Meister team illustrates the digitalization of the manufacturing service industry – moving from products to service via AI building blocks.

Data Center

Why We Need to Invest in Data Center Education Now

Eline Stuivenwold from the DDA and Dr. Maaike van Kessel from Noorderpoort, on how data center talents are fundamental for growth and digital leadership.

Artificial Intelligence

Consulting vs. Digital Platform - Which Solution Is Better?

Can modern, AI-supported digital platforms provide a viable alternative for external business consulting? Sabrina Kaindl from SalsUp takes a look at the pros and cons of each.

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 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.

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Editorial Calendar 2021

Topics and Deadlines for contributing to dotmagazine in 2021

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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Contributing to dotmagazine – dot-business

How do you support companies in mastering the challenges and harnessing the potential of digitalization? Tell us!

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.

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.

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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 Multi Cloud

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