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• Data Protection and BCM: Why Resilience Only Works When Combined

  How are data protection and BCM related? The GDPR demands more than just data security; it requires availability and crisis resilience. In practice, however, data protection and business continuity management are often separated organizationally. This article shows why effective data protection fails without coordinated BCM and how companies can successfully integrate reporting requirements, recovery times, roles, and responsibilities.

  IT•Christopher Schroer•17 Jun 2025•14 minutes

  

• Data affinity is the key to digital transformation

  Data is the key to the future – whether for efficient mobility concepts, personalized education or medical progress. Nevertheless, ignorance and concerns are hindering its use, even though it could significantly increase innovation and quality of life.

  Data•Marcel Kappestein•17 Dec 2024•5 minutes

  

• Principles of Privacy By Design (PbD) explained

  Privacy by Design (PbD) is a big word for a simple concept. This article explains the basic principles you need to understand in order to use PbD in your daily work and to secure costs and mitigate risks before they occur.

  IT-Security & Cyber Security•MoreThanDigital Insights•17 Jul 2024•5 minutes

  

• The right way to deal with AI

  AI models can harbor a number of risks. However, if artificial intelligence is used thoughtfully and responsibly, the use of such tools can also bring great potential.

  AI & Machine Learning•Alexandra Anderson•25 Apr 2024•7 minutes

  

• Using Large Language Models (LLMs) securely in the enterprise

  How can companies optimize large language models while keeping their sensitive data in-house? The goal of this article is to demonstrate approaches for analyzing unstructured, in-house data while meeting data protection requirements.

  AI & Machine Learning•Rainer Simmoleit•19 Oct 2023•7 minutes

  

• EU Digital Strategy 2030 - Setting goals for the digital age

  On 9 March 2021, the EU Commission presented the objectives for the digital age until 2030. The core points of the digital strategy are competence building, the digital transformation in companies, the creation of secure and sustainable digital infrastructures as well as the digitalisation of public services.

  Regulations & Laws•Karin Dietl•21 Aug 2023•6 minutes

  

• Data protection and DSGVO - 5 stumbling blocks for SMEs

  For small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), it is often difficult to meet the data protection requirements according to the GDPR. Even with few resources for this topic, the data protection requirements apply to SMEs just as they do to larger companies, and so SMEs are not spared from audits by the data protection supervisory authorities. However, the need to act in a data protection-compliant manner should not only be seen in connection with possible fines and loss of reputation, but should also be used as a competitive advantage in view of the growing importance of data protection for end customers as well as in B2B business.

  Data protection•DIGITAL BREAKFAST•26 Mar 2023•7 minutes

  

• How customers and retailers benefit from the "Sales-Navi"

  Compared to the online store, the high street is falling behind here: online, customers can quickly see when the product is sold out. In brick-and-mortar retail, this is far less clear: many retailers operate more than one store per city, and if the product is sold out in one store, another may still have it in stock. This article shows how retailers can circumvent these bottlenecks.

  Retail and Wholesale•Klaus-Peter Kaul•9 Oct 2022•5 minutes

  

• Sourcing readiness: revival of a millennium theme

  It is still all about the best solution, the best provider and sharply calculated prices. Where 15 years ago standardization projects decided on future viability and cost-based benchmarking decided on contract extensions, today solution providers and interested customers from midsize companies, corporations and small businesses are driving each other forward through regulatory complexity. How were sourcing projects successful in 2005, what has become obsolete, what is still valid today and what needs to be done now?

  Procurement•Philipp Schneidenbach•7 Apr 2022•8 minutes

  

• Cybersecurity in home office times: 5 tips for secure network(s)

  Virtually overnight, the "analog" virus Corona is turning the classic working world upside down: home office is suddenly running like an assembly line, or as others say: "going viral". Not only the health of employees must be at the top of the agenda, but also the integrity of information worth protecting. Because this "analog" virus also serves as a backdoor for its digital cousins. The article explains how companies can protect themselves against cyberattacks in Corona times.

  IT-Security & Cyber Security•Ildikó Bruhns•13 Jan 2022•5 minutes

  

• Phishing, Smishing, Vishing: Attention data theft!

  Understand the concepts of phishing, spear phishing, smishing, vishing and other forms of data theft work and how to prevent them in the first place.

  IT-Security & Cyber Security•eBanking aber sicher!•13 Jan 2022•5 minutes

  

• Hard times for data transfer to third countries - "Privacy Shield" falls

  With the decision (Case C-311/18), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has declared the so-called "Privacy Shield" for data transfers to the USA to be invalid. The use of so-called standard contractual clauses must also be viewed critically in light of US surveillance laws. Possible courses of action for data-exporting companies have therefore been restricted. This article on international data traffic shows what companies must now do.

  Data protection•Karin Dietl•24 Nov 2021•4 minutes