For the ISMS tool verinice, the sector-specific standard B3S Krankenhaus (hospital) is now available. It supports hospitals in implementing requirements for the protection of their information infrastructure. Users can apply the standard in the IT baseline protection or in the ISM/ISO perspective. The standard is published by the German Hospital Federation. As additional content for verinice, it can be purchased via the verinice.SHOP or downloaded from the verinice.PRO repository. Please note:…

The City of Berlin has extended its contract with SerNet GmbH for the use of the ISMS tool "verinice". For another four years, the state administration institutions will thus use this widely used OpenSource tool for managing information security. The contractual partner on the side of German's capital is the IT Service Center "ITDZ - IT-Dienstleistungszentrum Berlin". The ITDZ Berlin also uses verinice for its own purposes and was the first company to receive the BSI certificate according to the…

verinice support budgets are now available in the verinice.SHOP. They provide quick and easy access to supporting services. In addition to individual contracts, SerNet is thus making flat-rate budgets available to customers all over the world.

With this step wants to make it easier for verinice users to have direct access to the expertise of the verinice.TEAM. Two advantages in particular are key: The contract is concluded immediately instead of having to be individually negotiated. In…

<link https: www.centos.org _blank external-link-new-window>CentOS 7 is supported by verinice since the current 1.15 version – users can now switch to the newer version of the Linux distribution.

Updating servers from CentOS 6 to 7 is not possible, hence verinice must be set up and configured again. If needed, <link https: www.sernet.com _blank external-link-new-window>SerNet and the verinice.TEAM offer support with the transition. The verinice appliance will be available for CentOS 7 in a few weeks and will also simplify the reinstallation. Daniel Murygin, team lead software development: "Customers who are…

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.…