Cybersecurity – Ten Legal Commandments For Prevention

Key Take-aways

1. In the context of cyber prevention, legal aspects must be considered in addition to technical and organizational ones. This is not done sufficiently today.
2. The most important legal steps for action can be summarized in ten points and be implemented with reasonable effort.
3. If preventive legal measures are neglect ed, a company risks various disadvan tages, ranging from breaches of contract to sanctions.

Introduction

Cybercrime is on everyone's lips. Hardly a day goes by without a major company or public authority falling victim to a cyberattack. Cyberattacks are now perceived as one of the biggest risks from a business perspective. With the ever-growing threat of cyberattacks, awareness for the need of preventive measures has also increased greatly, with a focus on technical and organi sational steps. Legal measures in the field of cyber prevention, however, are still hardly taken – wrongly so, because much remains to be done in this