SerNet and the verinice team are pleased to announce the verinice.XP 2025: The conference around the open source ISMS and DSMS tool verinice will take place on 19 and 20 February 2025. After a long break due to renovation work, the venue will once again be the Radisson Collection Hotel in Berlin. verinice.XP 2025 will gather the verinice team, users and experts on site and provide a platform for exchanging ideas on current trends, challenges and innovations.

We invite all interested parties –…

The risk landscape is becoming increasingly complex and dynamic - maintaining business continuity is a top priority for organizations of all sizes and sectors. verinice, the leading open source solution for information security management, is introducing updates for integrated emergency management: The two products "verinice Business Continuity Management BCMS (200-4)" and "verinice Business Continuity Management BCMS (ISO 22301)" have received numerous new features and improvements. Both are…

In cooperation with neam IT Services GmbH, SerNet publishes the additional module "verinice WiBA - Weg in die Basis-Absicherung" free of charge in the verinice.SHOP.  The "Weg in die Basisabsicherung" (WIBA) stands for a practice-oriented approach that the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has developed specifically for local authorities to facilitate and accelerate the implementation of IT baseline protection.

Through test questions in topic-specific checklists, WiBA enables…

The updated versions of two BSI minimum standards are available for verinice: The minimum standard for using external cloud services and the minimum standard for logging and detecting cyber attacks. Both are available free of charge in the verinice shop for use in verinice (German only). 

The minimum standard for the use of external cloud services formulates security requirements according to § 8 para. 1 BSIG.  It addresses the two scopes of use and shared use of external cloud services.  In…

The next verinice.XP digital via Zoom will take place from February 28-29. There, everything will revolve around information security and data protection with verinice. Various workshops on verinice will also be offered via Zoom on the day before the conference. The call for papers and ticket sales have already started. Conference tickets are available for 95 €. The topics of the workshops will be announced shortly.

Call for Papers
You would like to contribute something to verinice.XP and have…

verinice gets an update: Version 1.26.1 is now available in the verinice.SHOP or in the customer repository. With the release, the verinice team fixes two bugs. Read more about verinice 1.26 and 1.26.1 in the Release Notes.

The verinice team has corrected the signing of verinice packages to SHA-256, which is particularly relevant for Windows users. Before the update, some users occasionally received warning messages from Microsoft Defender when installing the client on Windows. This issue is…

The verinice team has released the new version of the risk catalog: it now takes into account ISO/IEC 27001:2022-10, ISO/IEC 27002:2022-02 and ISO/IEC 27005:2022-10. The verinice Risk Catalog (ISO/IEC 27001:2022) - ISM Edition is available for download from the verinice.SHOP or the Update Repository for use in verinice version 1.26 and later.

The updated standards of the 2700x family are currently only officially available in English - therefore, the English Risk Catalog has been updated first.…

Version 1.26 of verinice and verinice.PRO is now available for download from the verinice.SHOP or from the Customer Repository. The verinice.TEAM provides new features, detail changes and bug fixes with this release. Support for the new ISO/IEC 27001:2022 is the main new highlight. Details are available in the full Release Notes.

The team plans to release the new verinice risk catalog with the relevant content of the ISO 27001 family shortly. In parallel, the customization of the risk analysis…