BSI Magazine

Modern industrial plants today are highly interconnected systems. Many companies – from SMEs to industrial groups – are increasingly valuing the exchange of information with suppliers or customers as quickly and directly as possible. To achieve this, areas that were previously physically separated from each other are be connected over the Internet – and can therefore be attacked. Cyber criminals can exploit these attack surfaces. Sabotage, espionage and blackmail are often the consequences.

Attacks on industrial plants, sometimes with serious consequences, have been observed time and again in recent years. Industrial control systems, which play a central role in production safety and are therefore particularly crucial to protect, are especially threatened. Against this backdrop, companies have become more aware of Cyber Security – and not merely in the critical infrastructures IT Security law obliges them to invest in for the Cyber Security of their
systems.

Cyber Security plays a key role in the digitalisation of production processes. Only when security aspects are initially considered in the design, can digitalisation succeed in developing the desired potential for companies. An important concern of the BSI is therefore to foster sustainable security awareness among business and to lay a solid foundation for digitalisation.

What threat do attacks on industrial control systems pose? How can companies create the adequate conditions to protect themselves? How can Security by Design help to meet the growing challenges? In the latest issue of the BSI Magazine, we present some aspects of cyber security in the world of Industrie 4.0. We hope you enjoy reading it!

Sincerely Yours,

Arne Schönbohm,
President of the Federal Office
for Information Security (BSI)

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	Security in focus - BSI Magazine 2018/01 Contents: Industry 4.0 - Security by Design, National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Cyber-Safe Driving, Advantage Diversity, Blockchains in Use, Avalanche Sinkholing download file "Security in focus - BSI Magazine 2018/01" (PDF, 9MB, File is accessible) Add "Security in focus - BSI Magazine 2018/01" to shopping cart	2018.04.25
	Security in focus - BSI Magazine 2017/02 Contents: BSI International, Cyber Security, The BSI, IT Security in Practice and Digital Society download file "Security in focus - BSI Magazine 2017/02" (PDF, 9MB, File is accessible) Add "Security in focus - BSI Magazine 2017/02" to shopping cart	2017.12.18
	Security in focus - BSI Magazine 2017/01 Contents: BSI: Key Role in the Avalanche Takedown; Ready for the New Level of Threat; 180 New Minds for a Common Mission download file "Security in focus - BSI Magazine 2017/01" (PDF, 5MB, File is accessible) Add "Security in focus - BSI Magazine 2017/01" to shopping cart	2017.03.08
	Security in focus - BSI Magazine 2016/02 Contents: Europe and International Cooperation download file "Security in focus - BSI Magazine 2016/02" (PDF, 6MB, File is accessible) Add "Security in focus - BSI Magazine 2016/02" to shopping cart	2016.10.26
	Security in focus - BSI Magazine 2016/01 Contents: 25 years of the BSI; Cyber-Security; Digital Society; IT Security in Practice; The BSI and its Responsibilites download file "Security in focus - BSI Magazine 2016/01" (PDF, 5MB, File is accessible) Add "Security in focus - BSI Magazine 2016/01" to shopping cart	2016.07.01
	Security in focus - BSI Magazine 2015 Contents: Cyber-Security; A Safer Information Society; IT Security In The Field; The Federal Office For Information Security And Its Tasks download file "Security in focus - BSI Magazine 2015" (PDF, 3MB, File is accessible) Add "Security in focus - BSI Magazine 2015" to shopping cart	2015.12.15
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