Christoph Wolfert, Managing Consultant at SCHUTZWERK GmbH, was a guest at the 10. Ulmer Logistiktag on 12th of May 2022 to give insights to the topic of phishing attacks and the threats for (logistics) companies.
Phishing attacks are omnipresent and currently one of the most spread variants to attack companies. Also logistics companies are affected. Due to their strong dependency on IT (e. g. in the field of warehouse management, dispatching and transport) phishing attacks are always on the agenda.
The current situation and the preventive measures taken around the COVID-19 pandemic not only severely restrict public and private life, but also have a major impact on work culture.
re and more companies are being forced to allow their employees to work from home in order to keep operations running as smoothly as possible despite the restrictions and prohibitions.
Where otherwise concepts are developed over months, preparations are made and test runs are carried out, home office possibilities must currently be created within a few days.
As part of the 10 years IT security anniversary lecture series at Aalen University, Bastian Könings has given an introduction to the security of today’s and future vehicles. In his talk, he outlined known security issues and demonstrated existing attacks on cars. How these issues are being addressed in current development processes was discussed by showing the goals and approaches of penetration tests conducted by SCHUTZWERK in the automotive domain.
SCHUTZWERK has long-lasting connections to Hochschule Furtwangen, Hochschule Aalen and Ulm University in order to cooperate in research and teaching topics with security focus. This includes lectures, security CTFs, master and bachelor thesis as well as research projects (e.g., the ongoing BMBF project SecForCARs in which a recent master thesis was conducted together with Ulm University). Furthermore, SCHUTZWERK regularly conducts one-day hands-on events, so-called Capture-the-flags (CTF), in which students can test their cybersecurity skills in form of a practical competition (e.
Like in years past (nearly) the whole team met in Ghent for the unofficial second team event: the BruCON . Next to trainings, talks and workshops the main focus was to have fun together. Therefore, the majority of the team – not all since the team has grown significantly over the last year – stayed at the band resort: a complete apartment in a prime location with lots of space, a beer fridge and a bar.
SCHUTZWERK at the first IT-GRC Congress in Berlin.
On the 15th and 16th June 2016 the first IT-GRC Congress took place in Berlin. The organizers "ISACA Germany Chapter e.V." and “Quadriga Hochschule Berlin” focus the event on “Cyber Security & Digital Transformation”. But the topics went beyond Governance, Revision and Compliance and covered also the current threat landscape in information technology.
At the event Christoph Wolfert, Senior Security Consultant at SCHUTZWERK GmbH, spoke about targeted attacks.
On 14th June 2016, the 13th Cyber Security Day took place in Leipzig. This event was organized by the Alliance for Cyber Security, an initiative of the Federal Office for Information Security (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik - BSI). This time the event was dedicated to the topic of "Web Application Security". Owing to the huge demand, the contents were, for the first time, specifically aimed at “engineers” as target audience.
