SAP Solution: espionage

Seven out of ten industrial companies have been victims of sabotage, data theft or espionage in the past two years.

Many - perhaps all - people back up their data. But does this guarantee data availability? Data security is only guaranteed at the end when the restore has been successfully completed. NetApp, All for One Steeb and Grandconsult have developed solutions for backup and successful restore: The combination of technology and organization is crucial.

Whistleblower Edward Snowden has opened the world's eyes and brought us the certainty: our data is not private, the NSA reads along. Information about us, our companies, businesses, paths, relationships - it's all being collected and analyzed. Many of us are unintentionally open books, exposing innovations, ideas, entire business processes. Is the world now falling...

Schadenfreude is not an honorable virtue. When I read the reports on Spiegel Online about the Prism spying program of the U.S. NSA (National Security Agency), I had to think of all my critics: Why doesn't this CIO dare to go into the cloud? He who laughs last laughs best.