Hasso-Plattner-Institut
 

Documentation 2022

Potsdam Conference for National CyberSecurity 2022


Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel

Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel

Director and CEO, Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering

"For years, it was a theoretical scenario that attacking IT systems in a war would cause immense damage, just like attacking them with bombs. Now, in the Ukraine war, this is reality."

 

Prof. Dr. Christian Dörr

Prof. Dr. Christian Dörr

Head of the research group " Cybersecurity - Enterprise Security", Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering

"The Ukraine war shows that cybersecurity is essential in protecting critical infrastructure. Even before the (kinetic) attacks, there were cyberattacks on critical infrastructure in Ukraine for years."

 

Thomas Fetten

Thomas Fetten

Chief Executive Officer Deutsche Telekom Security GmbH

"Germany's cybersecurity lacks skilled workers and investment. We need to act now."

 

 Dr. Christoph Heusgen

Dr. Christoph Heusgen

Chairman of the Munich Security Conference

"With the relevance of digital technologies in the lives of people worldwide, the need to create international rules for freedom and security in the digital space is also growing. Germany must commit itself to ensuring that such standards reflect democratic values and the rule of law."

 

Wilfried Karl

Wilfried Karl

President of the Central Office for Information Technology in the Security Sector

"A key aspect of the security agencies' cyber capability is their digital sovereignty."

 

Dr. Klaus Kremper

Dr. Klaus Kremper

Chief Executive Officer OneFiber Interconnect Germany GmbH

"The war in Ukraine has been a wake-up call: The communications infrastructure is not sufficiently resilient, and a "kill switch" by saboteurs cannot be ruled out. Data traffic in our networked world could become impossible. Civil society, companies and authorities would be largely unable to act. Germany needs a new communications infrastructure: fast, cyber-secure and nationwide."

 

Nico Lumma

Nico Lumma

Managing Partner NMA Venture Capital GmbH

"Germany must become a cybersecurity nation. If we now lay the foundations for broad-based investment in innovative startups, we have a unique opportunity to raise the entire startup landscape in Germany to a new level with cybersecurity, just as happened in the defense sector in Silicon Valley 50 years ago."

 

Iris Plöger

Iris Plöger

Member of the Executive Board BDI - Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e.V.

"German industry is in the crosshairs of internationally operating cybercriminals on a daily basis. To ensure that German companies can protect themselves effectively in the face of steadily increasing cyberattacks, they need an IT security training offensive, continuous investment in IT and OT security, and consistent and unbureaucratic cyber legislation."

 

Andreas Reisen

Andreas Reisen

Head of Division "Cybersecurity for the Economy and Society" in the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community

"The cyber threat situation is characterized by its heterogeneity: state actors, ransomware and hacktivism are omnipresent. At the same time, global value chains in a geopolitically complex security situation are increasingly focusing on aspects of the trustworthiness of manufacturers."

 

Arne Schönbohm

Arne Schönbohm

President of the Federal Office for Information Security

"The cyber security situation in Germany is tense to critical due to the war in Ukraine and unabated high levels of cybercrime."

Sinan Selen

Sinan Selen

Vice President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution

"The military escalation in Eastern Europe also requires our full attention in the area of homeland security. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution is using its well-positioned espionage and cyber counterintelligence capabilities as well as proven partnerships to adequately counter any possible intensification of the situation."

 

Major General Wolfgang Wien

Major General Wolfgang Wien

Vice President of the Federal Intelligence Service

"Cybersecurity is a perennial challenge that we must champion day in and day out."