Information Security risks are constantly increasing in today’s society. In this setting, SMEs and large enterprises alike are facing a multitude of challenges. The reasons are manyfold; shortage of skilled …

The Internet of Things (IoT) describes a fully connected world with on-demand access to information and systems that process this information. It includes all intelligent, interconnected objects imaginable – billions …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, a growing dependency on Information Technology became obvious for many organizations, and with it an increase of cyber risks. The exploitation of employees working remotely was …

Ransomware is one of today’s much discussed types of cyber attack. Several business models around this attack type emerged during the last years. The schema boils down to a threat …

The theft of credentials is one of today’s risks to Information Security that significantly increased with the rise of Social Engineering. Cyber criminals use credentials to intrude the infrastructure of …

Losing company assets like laptops, smartphones, or documents, as well as assets getting stolen, are two well known risks to the Information Security of organizations. However, over the last years, …

A Denial of Service (DoS) attack aims at the availability of a service, website or network. By disrupting or suspending normal data flow, the system is rendered unavailable. Amplifying this …

The misuse of ones privileges is an intentional, malicious attack pattern. Most of the data breaches in 2021 in this category were caused by privilege abuse or data mishandling. They …

Unintentional actions are among the most common patterns in Information Security incidents. Miscellaneous errors of employees can directly compromise assets of an organization and lead to data breaches. According to …