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Felix Lindner  Sandro Gaycken   Recurity Labs FU Berlin 37 automotiveIT 2012 Gentlemen how do you assess the security situation in German industrial companies Lindner Security cannot be assessed based on black and white categories There are numerous threat levels between I am at risk and I am secure that you can and must handle very differently I think the security situation for problems of private users is relatively stable here everything functions mostly as it should The situation appears to be different for companies They are increasingly putting themselves in an uncomfortable position by outsourcing cri tical infrastructure to cloud providers By trying to save on short term IT costs CIOs have handed themselves long term strate gic problems that can only be solved with difficulty And targeted economic espiona ge is the area where their protections are the least adequate This doesn t simply in volve infecting as many computers as possi ble but rather tapping into key know how in selected systems digitally Most compa nies do not even realize that they have been hacked The data in question are not sud denly missing They are just copied Does this apply to the auto industry as well Gaycken We know from the intelligence ser vices that that it is not just digital product information that is at risk It is increasingly construction plans and operating instruc tions for entire factories all the way to the last screw and the associated organizatio nal structure If the information on fine tuning gets into the wrong hands the tech nological edge of a high technology center like Germany can quickly be lost While the construction of complex manufacturing fa cilities formerly took up to five years now they can be built in three to four months Whatever can be copied is in fact copied It is possible to verify official programs in about 120 countries Each of these coun tries can offset the offensive deficits in its economic development The economically weaker countries are especially interested Lindner The auto industry is certainly one of the sectors predestined to this Auto makers and suppliers are extensively net worked with one another and distributed work is the rule rather than the exception In addition development data and design drawings must be generally available every where at any time This form of work or ganization allows criminal projects to run over a relatively long time without being