
Keynote with Daniel Bartz
Daniel Bartz, an embedded security expert and member of the Chaos Computer Club, will open the Safety & Security Forum on July 5, 2017.
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Daniel Bartz, an embedded security expert and member of the Chaos Computer Club, will open the Safety & Security Forum on July 5, 2017.

The new cybersecurity law issued by the Chinese government came into force on June 1. Many German and European companies are very uncertain about the extent to which they are affected by the change in the law.

Two major players in the IT security market - Cisco and IBM - intend to improve the efficiency of IT security for their customers through technology integration, combined services and collaboration on threat intelligence.

According to Europol, around 230,000 computers in 150 countries were victims of the cyberattack by the ransomware 'WannaCry'. Experts assume that similar attacks will follow and are urging companies and authorities to act quickly.

Industrial Data Space Association
The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft founded the 'Industrial Data Space' association over a year ago. An initial reference model of the underlying architecture was published at the Hannover Messe 2017.
The 'Forum Safety & Security' will once again take place in Munich on July 5 and 6. Experts from both disciplines will discuss current issues and solutions in the field of safe automation at the congress and accompanying trade exhibition.

Phoenix Contact has announced its figures for 2016. According to the figures, the Blomberg-based group of companies was able to increase its turnover by 3.2% last year. This year, the 2 billion euro mark is set to be reached.

With Dell EMC, a traditional IT manufacturer is taking on the challenge of gaining a foothold in a largely saturated and extremely divergent industrial PC market. Andreas Ertel, Solution Consultant at Dell OEM, explains why they are taking this step.

The rapid detection of IT attacks is a basic prerequisite for immediate reactions and the acceleration of incident response processes. Cyberark has identified ten IT commands that can indicate a possible insider or cyber attack.

Pilz exceeded the 300 million euro sales mark for the first time in 2016. 2017 is characterized by a generational change: At the end of the year, Renate Pilz will hand over the operational business completely into the hands of her children Susanne Kunschert and Thomas Pilz.