10 Messe Co 3 2017 FOCUS Vulnerable Digital technology makes our life easier but also harbours risks financial experts The Association of German Banks sur mises that nine million new malware programmes are created every month And according to the European police agency Europol there were no fewer than 1 4 bil lion fraudulent transactions involving payment cards in 2015 In his State of the Union address in September the President of the EU Commission Claude Juncker also gave numbers more than 4 000 ransomware attacks per day with 80 percent of European companies suffering a cybersecurity incident in 2016 This huge risk potential means that the security ques tions associated with digitalisation are now an issue for management boards within the EU There s talk of estab lishing a regulatory inspectorate for IT product security And the European Commission intends for cybersecurity measures to be regulated at the European level in future An EU wide programme under the direction of the Euro pean IT security agency ENISA will handle the certifi cation of simple Internet of Things devices as well as complex high security systems like those used in banking applications At the moment there are virtually no bind ing requirements for the IT security of products And there are also no consequences when such functions fail This situation needs to be remedied as soon as possible The threat scenario continues to be a concern writes the German Federal Office for Information Security in its latest report on the status of IT security in Germany Government the economy and society can t become suc cessfully digitalised without cybersecurity Policymakers in Germany Europe and the rest of the world can only create the frameworks The necessary innovations will come from the companies and experts operating in the German and worldwide IT security sector that showcase their products at exhibitions explore the relevant topics at congresses and develop and then implement solutions in daily life and the economy NürnbergMesse is one such networking venue where the issue of security isn t just limited to the IT sector but is also critical across in dustries as a thematic cluster Read more about this on Pages 12 13 n

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