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After ten years, the Bundesdruckerei Group is handing over the operation of the ICAO Public Key Directory to Netrust – and looks back on a successful international infrastructure project. Today, the PKD enables 107 countries to exchange e-passport certificates securely and efficiently, thereby forming a central foundation for modern border controls worldwide. In this way, Bundesdruckerei has made a significant contribution to making global travel safer and more interoperable.

People invented means of payment long before coins and banknotes. Everything that was rare, obtained with difficulty, or artfully produced could become the means of payment for a tribe, people or cultural circle. Trade, religion, war, and scarcity also produced imaginative currencies and pioneering innovations. Until today.

The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) is celebrating its 30th Birthday. Reason enough to take a look back at the development of IT security in Germany.

From January 2020, cash registers must be protected against manipulation. We will explain exactly what the applicable regulation requires, who is affected by it and which solutions are currently being discussed.

Digital certificates are the basis for trusted communications in the virtual world. An overview of certificate types and and how they work.

Health data from everyday medical practice has the potential to give research an immense boost. Yet exchanging such data is subject to strict regulations. Trust Centres can overcome this hurdle. The key to this is pseudonymisation of identity data.  

What is digital sovereignty? How do the provider and user perspectives differ in this context? 

The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) is celebrating its 30th Birthday. Reason enough to take a look back at the development of IT security in Germany.