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…

On November 10th & 11th 2015 it's time for the Information Security Solutions Europe Conference (ISSE) in Berlin. SerNet and verinice are Gold Supporter and will be present at the conference location Hotel Palace Berlin (Budapester Str. 45, 10787 Berlin). 

On November 11th verinice team lead Alexander Koderman will give a talk on "1001 Vulnerabilities: removing the breeding ground for cyber threats". More about the content in the Session Details. 

Visit us and chat with us about verinice and…

The verinice.TEAM is pleased to announce, that the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union (GSC) joined the active and intensive verinice.PRO users. The GSC supports the European Council and the Council of the EU and helps to organize their work. verinice.PRO now contributes to this task. 

verinice gains popularity as a tried and tested tool for the management of an information security system. Other users include more and more companies, institutions and authorities at local,…

From installing and working with verinice to importing OpenVAS scans: 16 screencasts, produced by Nils Ulltveit-Moe, guide users through the OpenSource information security management system (ISMS). They're all available via YouTube.

The tutorials demonstrate, for example, how to add threats and vulnerabilities, how to create risk scenarios and risk assessment reports or how to add documents and design workflows. They also introduce the Spanish open standard MAGERIT. By this the course utilises…

March 24th - 26th 2015 marks the date of WHD.global (World Hosting Days) - verinice will be present as well. The SerNet GmbH, home of verinice, will be hosting a verinice booth. You're invited to visit us at D12 and dive into the the meet-up of the hosting and internet world at Europa-Park Rust with us. 

The SerNet team is excited to present and talk about verinice as well as the according topics IT-Security, ISMS, ISO 27001 and BSI Baseline Protection. On Thursday (March 26th) SerNet CEO Dr.…

The new verinice Risk Catalog is available as of now. ISO released the updated version of ISO/IEC 27001:2013 in October 2013 with numerous changes - all of which are incorporated in this new catalog. Whether verinice novice or expert: The up-to-date Risk Catalog will turn out to be a real time saver. 

The new version of this verinice risk cataloge contains all 14 control clauses, 35 security categories and 114 controls of the standard. Furthermore it contains 109 generic risk scenarios, 47…

"Heartbleed" - a severe vulnerability in the OpenSSL encryption software - currently worries the IT scene. At SerNet and in the verinice team we looked into the matter intensively and found corresponding solutions. We will keep you updated about all possible developments. 

Information for verinice customers:

• The verinice client is not affected.
• Users of the appliances should draw or update the OpenSSL package , the update is already available.
• Heartbleed has also affected the verinice…

A case study from Greenbone Networks GmbH shows how to make automated vulnerability management possible in combination with verinice: LEONI AG, automotive supplier headquartered in Nuremberg, relies on a combination of Greenbone Security Manager (GSM) and verinice.PRO 

The case study "Vulnerability Management" is available as PDF at Greenbone.

As it stands out, LEONI was able to increase the elimination of vulnerabilities significantly as well as raise the efficiency of globally distributed IT…

From March 10th - 14th, our verinice-Team and SerNet relocate to Hannover to take part in the CeBIT 2014. You'll find us ins hall 6, stand G10 – visit us there and get to know all the developments regarding our ISMS-Tool.

Exchange your ideas and your future requiremets for verinice with us, learn more about the verinice roadmap and have a look at verinice.PRO. Or just enjoy a cup of coffee with us.

You need an eTicket? We've got one for you! Just contact us at cebit@sernet.de

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