verinice.TEAM just released verinice 1.13.1 that contains some enhancements and bug fixes. It can be downloaded for free by all customers that bought verinice 1.13 at the verinice.SHOP or maintain an active verinice.PRO subscription.

This new version contains major enhancements for German data protection regulations. For more info please switch to the German version of this announcement. The developers also permanently added the BCM enhancements regarding the German BSI standard 100-4, that had…

The verinice.XP 2017 agenda is online! Our <link http: verinicexp.org _blank external-link-new-window>information security conference takes place on February 6th and 7th at Sofitel Kurfürstendamm in Berlin.

The first day "Grundschutztag" about "BSI Baseline Security" starts with Marc Fliehe's keynote from BITKOM e.V. and is followed by Jan Grasshof (Cassini) about "Grundschutz" at Berlin's public administration and Holger Schellhaas (TCI) at a travel insurance company. Ronny Frankenstein (HiSolutions) gives an overview about "Neuer Grundschutz" and…

After German BSI discontinued it's own GSTOOL for information security management the tool market evolves quickly. <link http: verinice.org _blank external-link-new-window>verinice plays an important rule because it is the only OpenSource tool with a BSI license.

<link http: www.verinicexp.org _blank external-link-new-window die anwenderkonferenz für>verinice.XP – User Conference for Information Security shows how GSTOOL users can migrate to verinice and other tools and how the new German baseline security will evolve at BSI and can be adopted especially by critical infrastructure providers.

verinice.XP takes place on Februar 6th and…

Alexander Koderman leaves SerNet after more than 10 years and enters a new position as Chief Security Officer at a Company in southern Germany. This is the end of an era where Alexander built and influenced the verinice.TEAM. His team and all colleagues at SerNet are deeply grateful and accept that after so many years of team leadership Alexander wants to have a more functional role as information security specialist. Alexander Koderman remains a member of the cross-company Open Source team that…

<link https: www.youtube.com _blank external-link-new-window risk analysis with excel the one thing you should>With the release of verinice 1.13 we also produced a fresh set of new screencasts. You can find them directly on the verinice YouTube channel.

A two-part tutorial in English is devoted to <link https: www.youtube.com external-link-new-window reporting on>"Reporting on Compliance". The new in-memory query assistant is used here. Koderman shows, among other things, how it is possible to link standards with one another without additional effort: For example, you can query how well the standard PCI DSS is implemented - using already existing results based on ISO…

The verinice.TEAM at SerNet has released the open source ISMS tool verinice in version 1.13. An in-memory query wizard, which makes the reporting quicker and easier, as well as the extension of the possibility to connect to other tools (KIX4OTRS, Greenbone, REST API) are new feature highlights. In addition, preparations were made for the data protection for the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR).

Now available at shop.verinice.com

The most significant change triggered by verinice…

From October 18th - 20th 2016 Nuremberg (Germany) hosts the annual it security fair it-sa. SerNet, the verinice.TEAM and verinice.PARTNERS will be present at booth 12.0 / 12.0-339.

The verinice.TEAM is accompanied by the verinice.PARTNERS Cassini, SILA Consulting, IT-InfoSec und neam. Together they’ll present verinice in version 1.13 and demonstrate the possibilities of the ISMS tool for ISO 27001, VDA ISA etc. as well as specific scenarios. The partners will also inform about their individual…

7-9 June 2016 marks the date of the Infosecurity Europe in Olympia (Kensington, London). SerNet will present the ISMS-Tool verinice there for the first time. You can find the SerNet team and the verinice.PARTNERS from Sila Consulting at the verinice booth S70 on the 2nd level.

Together we will introduce verinice in its current version 1.12, demonstrate the potential of the ISMS tool and give an outlook on the future development steps. In addition, Sila informs about partner services such as the…

On 4 May 2016, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union. It replaces the national sectoral data protection regulations in the 28 EU Member States. Thus, after a a two-year transitional period, national regulations will not be valid anymore. 

With the reform, a EU wide unified legal framework with a high standard of data protection should be ensured in the member states. For companies, the basic regulation has major implications…

On February 17th, 2016 a <link http: www.heise.de security meldung glibc-dramatische-sicherheitsluecke-in-linux-netzwerkfunktionen-3107621.html _blank patch linux red hat over critical glibc>critical bug in the Linux library glibc was made public. verinice.PRO users should patch their operating systems with the updates released.

The command

yum update 

updates the whole system to the latest version.

If only the operating system should be updated without…