Awareness

The clamor and viral use of a very human-sounding, artificial technology chatbot named, ChatGPT gave rise to some new and interesting activities in the cybercrime world.

An all-out attack on a company network usually causes havoc. Normal operation ceases for the most part, and the entire organisation switches to "emergency mode". Bouncing back from that can be a challenge that might take weeks or months. Here are some practical considerations.

In the second part of the blog series, Tim Berghoff, Stefan Decker and Karsten Hahn explore current trends in IT security. Their views focus on the effects on IT security of the past years of crisis, the importance of smartphones in cyber attacks, and the return of rootkits as part of the attack…

Every year in November, we at G DATA CyberDefense ask our IT security experts the same question: “What risks will threaten the IT security of companies and private individuals in the coming year?” In the first part of this blog series, Andreas Lüning, Thomas Siebert and Eddy Willems answer this…

The uncertainty surrounding the armed conflict in Ukraine also raises numerous questions: How can companies protect themselves from getting caught between the fronts and becoming a target? There is only one thing that is certain: There are currently more questions than answers.

Many IT managers in companies rely on security awareness training to make employees pay attention to IT security. The measure has as many advocates as it has critics that oppose it. The latter can’t see the point of or has doubts about the effectiveness of such training activities.