Tag: security
Mobile Security – How secure are our daily used devices?
Nowadays, the usage of mobile devices has become a part of our everyday life. A lot of sensitive and personal data is stored on these devices, which makes them more attractive targets for attackers. Also, many companies offer the possibility to work remotely, which results in storing confidential business information on private phones and therefore…
Improved Vulnerability Detection using Deep Representation Learning
Today’s software is more vulnerable to cyber attacks than ever before. The number of recorded vulnerabilities has almost constantly increased since the early 90s. The advantage of Deep Learning algorithms is that they can learn vulnerability patterns on their own and achieve a much better vulnerability detection performance. In this Blog-Post, I will present a…
Why AI is a Threat for our Digital Security
Artificial intelligence has a great potential to improve many areas of our lives in the future. But what happens when these AI technologies are used maliciously? Sure, a big topic may be autonomous weapons or so called “killer robots”. But beside our physical security – what about our digital one? How the malicious use of…
Cloud security tools and recommendations for DevOps in 2018
Introduction Over the last five years, the use of cloud computing services has increased rapidly, in German companies. According to a statistic from Bitkom Research in 2018, the acceptance of cloud-computing services is growing. Cloud-computing brings many advantages for a business. For example, expenses for the internal infrastructure and its administration can be saved. Resource…
Security in a SaaS startup and today’s security issues with DevOps
Motivation Facing security in a company nowadays is a big job: it starts with a backup strategy ensuring the business continuation, plans for recovery after major breakdowns, ensuring physical security (entrance control, lock-pads, safes), screening of potential employees, monitoring servers, applications and workstations, training the employees in security issues and policies and does not even…
Cloud Security – Part 2: The vulnerabilities and threats of the cloud, current scientific work on cloud security, conclusion and outlook
The second of two blog posts about cloud security. This post covers the vulnerabilities and threats of the cloud, the current scientific work on cloud security and a conclusion and an outlook.
Cloud Security – Part 1: A current market overview and the concepts and technologies of the cloud
The first of two blog posts, that are dealing with the latest developments in cloud security. This post covers a current market overview of cloud computing and the concepts and technologies used in the cloud.
Human Error in IT failures
With the ever-increasing complexity of artificial systems that aid humans in their daily and work lives, their operation procedures have grown more complicated and the potential for mishandling is higher than ever before. In the IT world, modern systems that must serve hundreds of millions of customers simultaneously and reliably have grown so complex that…
Microservices – Legolizing Software Development III
Security is a topic that always occurs with microservices. We’ll present our solution for managing both, authentication and authorization at one single point.
Malvertising Part 2
Welcome to the second part of my series about malvertising. In this second post, we’ll get to the important stuff: What is malvertising and how often do these attacks happen?
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