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Unfortunately, it's a jungle out there in cyberspace! Deutsche Telekom is offering simple and effective solutions at CeBIT

  • Deutsche Telekom's honeypots are now registering four to six million attacks per day
  • Cyber criminals are targeting both companies and private users
  • Deutsche Telekom is aiming to become the European market leader for security solutions

Four to six million times per day sensors are now getting attacked , that Deutsche Telekom is running as digital traps in the net an visualizing on a "security dashboard". This means that millions of times per day, attackers are looking for – and finding – security vulnerabilities that have been intentionally added to the traps. Rather than aiming at specific points, the attacks tend to be high-volume, automatic vulnerability scans that search the network for weaknesses.

Deutsche Telekom is introducing a range of new products that will provide effective digital shielding – for companies of all sizes and for private customers – against an extremely wide spectrum of cyber attacks. At CeBIT 2016, prior to the launch of its new Telekom Security organizational unit, the Deutsche Telekom Group is showing new products from its Magenta Security Portfolio. The key principle behind all the new products is that security needs to be simple. Security tools and measures can only be effective when they are actually used, and they get used only when they are easy to use and understand. In introducing its new portfolio, Deutsche Telekom is aiming for a clear goal: to build on its market leadership in Germany and to gradually extend that leadership to the entire European market.

One key statistic from Deutsche Telekom's private-customer business suffices to show that customers often fail to use security solutions or to use them properly: each month, the company sends over 220,000 emails and letters to customers whose computers have been roped into illegal botnets, for activities such as high-volume spamming. In addition, Deutsche Telekom receives some 2.1 million tipoffs about suspected abuse each month.

Other companies paint similar pictures. According to a 2015 survey of the Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (Bitkom), 51 percent of all companies in Germany suffered incidents of digital industrial espionage, sabotage or data theft in the two-year period prior to the survey. On the basis of conservative calculations, Bitkom estimates the resulting damage for the German economy at EUR 51 billion per year.

Experts of Deutsche Telekom predict that attack strategies will continue to grow more sophisticated and to reach into new areas of vulnerability. Attacks against connected devices and processes will also continue to mount. And in addition to keeping up their attacks against industrial production infrastructures, attackers will continue to look carefully at new devices that emerge, such as smart door locks and fitness trackers. The experts also expect further increases in the areas of identity theft and of malware propagation via office-software documents.

These growing threats are raising the bar for cyber defenses, especially in the following three basic areas:

  1. Smartphones. The risks emanating from these handheld computers are still being greatly underestimated. And, as shown by the "Stagefright" bugs that have affected the Android OS, the risks are particularly great in mobile infrastructures that employ many different types of mobile devices and operating systems. Antivirus protection for mobile devices will thus become an increasingly critical issue.
  2. Behavior-based analysis and system-state analysis. Such analysis strategies, which can quickly detect attackers via anomalies in behaviors and states (as their names suggest), need to be used more often. Such analysis tools are increasingly being used by all types of customers – from consumers to corporations – and in all types of environments – from single smartphone to global corporate network.
  3. Companies' increasing use of honeypot systems to lure and expose attackers. Conceivably, honeypots, along with strategically planted fake datasets, could also be used to lure and expose attackers within systems.

At CeBIT 2016, Deutsche Telekom will show solutions in all three of these key areas – and much more.

Experience our products and services live at CeBIT in Hanover from March 14-18 at the Deutsche Telekom stand in hall 4, stand C38. Digitization thinkers and leaders will discuss their hands-on experiences in top-class talk formats. More information about the program and the scheduled speakers is available at http://transforum.telekom.com.

Deutsche Telekom's entire CeBIT presence is carbon-neutral: All CO2 emissions generated in setting up and operating the stand are being offset fully by carbon-reduction projects carried out abroad.

About Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies with around 151 million mobile customers, 30 million fixed-network lines and more than 17 million broadband lines (as of December 31, 2014). The Group provides fixed network, mobile communications, Internet and IPTV products and services for consumers and ICT solutions for business customers and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in more than 50 countries and has approximately 228,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenues of EUR 62.7 billion in the 2014 financial year – more than 60 percent of it outside Germany.

About T-Systems
Deutsche Telekom considers the European business customer segment a strategic growth area. Deutsche Telekom offers small, medium-sized and multinational companies ICT solutions for an increasingly complex digital world. In addition to services from the cloud, the range of services is centered around M2M and security solutions, complementary mobile communications and fixed network products, and solutions for virtual collaboration and IT platforms, all of which forms the basis for our customers' digital business models. With approximately 47,800 employees worldwide, T-Systems generated revenue of around EUR 8,6 billion in the 2014 financial year.

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