Everybody with an Internet-faced Microsoft Exchange server, Outlook Web Access (OWA) or Exchange Active Sync (EAS) can consider his or her system as compromised since January. This is reported by security experts like Chris Krebs and news magazines like Golem or Heise. In Germany, the BSI has contacted more than , companies. Read more

Yesterday evening I rolled out the new update on my Nextcloud instance. In the coming days, functional tests and adjustments will follow on the scripts for rolling out on customers’ systems Looking with interest on my Prometheus monitoring, how far the performance improvements affect actual implementation. Read more

Today’s quote is from Mike Kuketz’s Fediverse: Those in control of data are also in control of society. Digitisation must take this into account and understand data protection as social value. Data protection and digitalisation are not incompatible though many people believe this. In my daily practice, I encounter people who try to play data protection and digitisation off against each other. Read more

This picture is for all the people I have had discussions with in recent years about Digitisation in general or, more specifically, about the integration of tablets or notebooks within a corporate network. My recommendation then and now: Zero Trust! Isolate and segment potentially insecure, closed-source AD infrastructures! Read more