Posts Tagged ‘DIESEC’
Identity Theft in Germany: What SMEs Need to Know
Germany’s cybercrime problem has a number attached to it: an estimated €202.4 billion in damage to the German economy for the 2025 reporting period, around 4.5 percent of GDP, according to the Federal Criminal Police Office’s (BKA) latest Bundeslagebild Cybercrime report. Behind much of that damage sits a quieter but persistent issue: identity theft in…
Read MoreSME Squeeze: NIS2, AI Act, Ransomware Collide
On January 7, 2026, the ransomware group Akira hit Buhlmann Group, a Hamburg-based steel and metal trading company with roughly 2,000 employees and €428 million in annual revenue. The attackers made off with about 55GB of data — engineering drawings, HR files, financial records — before anyone at the company could respond. Buhlmann wasn’t an…
Read MoreCybersecurity Buyer’s Remorse: 5 Tips to Help SMEs Avoid It
Cybersecurity buyer’s remorse is a real risk for SMEs comparing endpoint protection, email security, vulnerability scanners, cloud security platforms, and managed detection services — there’s no shortage of solutions promising to reduce cyber risk. The challenge is deciding which ones are actually worth your money. Unlike large enterprises with dedicated security teams and sizeable technology…
Read MoreJuly 2026 Cybersecurity Roundup: A Rogue AI Agent, Ransomware Disruption, and Critical CVEs
This July 2026 Cybersecurity Roundup lands in a month when the peak of northern-hemisphere summer brought no letup in cyber incidents — if anything, July produced some of the year’s most unusual attacks so far. Here’s a roundup of the month’s key incidents and newly disclosed vulnerabilities, along with our take on what they mean.…
Read MoreRansomware in Germany: From IT Incident to Insolvency Risk
Ransomware in Germany is no longer an abstract IT concern — in 2026, it is one of the more concrete threats to whether a company survives at all. Two recent cases illustrate how differently this threat can play out. ZEGO Textilveredelungszentrum filed for insolvency following a cyberattack, without the attack type ever being publicly confirmed.…
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