Free VdS-Quick-Check for Cyber-Security now including CeBit-Ticket

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are often very highly innovative and well-known for agility in the realisation of their good ideas – which makes them a preferred target for cyber-espionage and -sabotage. Due to often weak digital protection measures, IT experts in the SME sector speak of “open barn doors”.

This is why VdS has bundled together its decades of experience in intrusion protection, from the inception of digitalisation on, to create the 1st Cyber-Security-Standard especially for SMEs. The guidelines 3473 with their pragmatic and practical solutions are provided by Europe’s No. 1 Institute for Corporate Safety and Security at www.vds-global.com/cyber free of charge. The VdS 3473 are already among the top 3 information security standards implemented in Germany and have been awarded the Security Innovation Award, which is known as the “Sector Oscar”.

Based on the award-winning guidelines, VdS offers a free Quick-Check (www.vds-quick-check.de/en, also specifically with questions on industrial automation systems). In just 20 minutes, company managers are given an individual overview of the status of their Cyber-Security in all relevant fields of action – directly including possible suggestions on optimisation. The immediate assessment of the situation is worded in a language clearly understandable also to non-IT experts. On request, the Quick-Check also serves as the ba-sis for a VdS-Quick-Audit and the official Certification of information security.

“At the CeBit in Hanover, the world’s leading trade fair and exhibi-tion for information technology, we will present our latest services for optimal Cyber-Security”, emphasises Markus Edel, head of the VdS Cyber-Security Services. “We want to make the valuable compo-nents of our cyber risk provisioning easily accessible to the vulnera-ble SMEs. Therefore, every participant of the VdS-Quick-Check re-ceives a free ticket to visit the CeBit in addition to the important sta-tus information and protection tips. We are looking forward to sup-porting companies with comprehensive solutions for optimal Cyber-Security from March 20th to 24th at Stand 6/40 at the CeBit 2017”.