The SecretPi – The secret agent privacy guard for Managers, Reporters, Dissidents and People like you and me, keeps nosy people out.

The SecretPi – The secret agent privacy guard for Managers, Reporters, Dissidents and People like you and me, keeps nosy people out.

      The Motivation (How the SecretPi came to be) Whilst creating a Raspberry Pi3B for a friend in Turkey, who want’s to watch German TV programs over the internet and do not want to have the Government monitoring his behaviour (mail, browsing etc.), an idea came to my mind. As my friend only needs a VPN which is maintained by the Raspberry and automatically starts where ever / when ever he is connected to the internet via his […]

Are SIEM’s dead ?

Are SIEM’s dead ?

The SIEM is dead….cause we killed it !   When I came first in contact with a SIEM, namely the SOC-Product from Computer Associates about 2004, my colleagues and I said “Wow, that’s the way to go !”. With log-file collection, correlation and the way how it was visualized it would definitely help customers to analyze their data better and faster, to detect attacks. Anyway at this time we had less log-sources, no BYOD and so on.   But I […]

Digitization – the big challenge for IT security

Digitization – the big challenge for IT security

While I was researching for this blog article, I realized that digitization is currently on everyone’s lips, used in many ways, actually only the umbrella term for the change in our society, in which everything – both in the private and in the corporate sector – becomes faster and closer meshed without being aware of the impact on society. So, as I write in the blog articles for companies, we should actually take a closer look at the term “digital […]