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Cologne / Trier (dpa / lrs) - In times of digitization, the number of cyber attacks on companies is increasing, and small and medium-sized companies can also be affected.
"Manufacturers are not given enough responsibility here and are not liable enough," said Jürgen Kohr of the German Press Agency.
Kohr is responsible for the cybersecurity business in Germany at TÜV Rheinland.
In the past, a lot of damage was caused by security gaps at the manufacturers, and smaller companies in particular are not in a position to regulate this themselves, explained Kohr.
Larger companies are better positioned or in some cases even obliged by law to take action in matters of security.
According to the “Mittelstand Practice Report” published last year by the “Germany Safe in the Net” association, 46 percent of the SMEs surveyed stated that they had already been victims of a cyber attack one or more times.
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A recently published survey by the specialist insurer Hiscox showed that German companies recorded particularly high losses from cyberattacks in an international comparison - even though they are spending more and more money on security.
"Smaller companies in particular have very little experience with IT security," said Christian Kien from the Trier Chamber of Commerce and Industry, who advises SMEs.
The awareness of the problem is extremely low.
"Currently, many think that there are more important things in the corona pandemic."
The home office, for example, is another gateway for attackers, said Kohr: "The better the protective mechanisms in large companies, the more criminals concentrate on the small ones."
Often the perpetrators would target customer data.
These would be encrypted and only released against payment.
The damage is immense.
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