Criminal hackers to attack worldwide companies and authorities. The Munich security conference discussed about it in Israel. In particular, Europe has apparently pent-up demand in terms of Cybersecurity.
“The Cyber-Genie is out of the bottle, and he can no longer even push it in,” says Wolfgang Ischinger, head of the Munich security conference. Military conflicts of the future will also take place in the cyber area. And so it was necessary that the security conference increasingly, with the security implications of employees. Germany had a large pent-up demand.
According to the Silicon Valley in the last year, held for the first time, the “MSC Cyber Security Summit” in Tel Aviv, together with the German Telekom. On the outskirts of the Israeli “Cyber Week” discussed here around 120 participants from business, politics, military and science, such as infrastructure and democracy in the digital age, can be protected.
Warns of military conflict in Cyberspace: Wolfgang Ischinger (in the middle), head of the Munich security conference
Petya, WannaCry – more and more often, malicious software and a global hacker attacks for significant disruptions and Chaos. The threat landscape in the Cyber area have evolved from a mere Cripple of Websites to attacks on infrastructure, or even elections. Finally, a global cyber attack had on Tuesday apparently targeted institutions in Ukraine in the visor. Last week, the British Parliament was the target of hackers.
In may, left the Trojan WannaCry a digital debris field in more than 150 countries and showed how vulnerable many States are now in the area. “We have a large pent-up demand in the cyber area,” said Ischinger in an interview with DW. “I suppose that many citizens are in Germany, but also in other countries appalled that the state institutions in the whole of Western Europe, wrestling and even in the United States, the hands and helpless in front of ‘Wanna Cry’. Because of this Virus is released, and the governments that are supposed to protect the populations and institutions from attacks of any kind, there are just General helplessness.”
Israeli Know-How in demand
Tel Aviv was not randomly selected as the conference venue. “Here in Israel the navel of the world of Cybersecurity is easy today,” says Thomas Kremer, Board member Deutsche Telekom, in an interview with DW. He also speaks of a large pent-up demand in Germany in the area of Cybersecurity. “In Israel there are the most Start-ups deal with security issues and we have a very strong promotion of business, of entrepreneurship, so a lot happens here in the area,” says Kremer.
Especially institutions and companies in Europe are apparently inadequately protected from cyber attacks
“Cyber attacks are our daily reality and it affects everyone, including private users. Per day there are approximately 300 000 Software variants around the world. This means that you have to constantly deal with attacks,” says Kremer.
Manipulation of elections is not excluded
In light of the recent cyber attacks, it needs cooperation, said Israeli security expert Amos Gilad. “Cyber is increasingly important, it grows leaves no traces but the threat,” says Gilad. “It’s a strategic threat is obtained if the influence on national elections in democratic countries – as if all the systems such as electricity networks will be crippled.” Also electoral manipulation, according to the experience in the United States is no longer unthinkable.
Whether the upcoming Bundestag elections in September could be in Germany, a target of hackers, you don’t want to speculate here, but “it would be a nightmare, if a foreign enemy could decide the election of politicians,” says Gilad, former head of the military-political Department in the Israeli Ministry of defense.
Deutsche Telekom Board member Thomas Kremer warns of hundreds of thousands of malware variants per day
Data protection and the combating of terrorism
The need for more security in the cyber area, but also has its downsides. Comprehensive data collection of the intelligence services is, at least in Germany a controversial topic. In Israel, many of the Start-ups in the military area, comprehensive data acquisition of the secret services is here.
Quite different is the initial conditions in Germany. “For us, the protection of data privacy is considered a particularly high-Well, the Israelis are more likely to be on the other end of the spectrum. They say the devil doesn’t get rid of the tires, if the state is able to have the data necessary deduction,” says Wolfgang Ischinger, head of the Munich security conference.
It was important to have this discussion now, and to gain experience values. Israeli security experts, such as Amos Gilad warned that the cyber threat to underestimate. “We live in dark times, where democracies have to defend. If that does not happen, the enemy will know no mercy.”