The German Data Privacy Laws and IT Security – Stefan Schumacher
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Data privacy and IT security are often seen as different beasts which do not have much in common. At DeepSec 2015 Stefan Schumacher of the Magdeburger Institut für Sicherheitsforschung gave a presentation about linking the two subjects:
„Hesse introduced the first data privacy law in the world in 1970. Since then, the German data privacy laws evolved over time and led to the creations of several tools and methods to protect private data.
Though it is aimed at data protection it can be utilized for IT security. This talk introduces the data privacy law and it's main ideas.
I will also show how it can be used to further IT security especially in the SME sector. This mostly refers to the identification and description of processes that work with data and therefore have to be protected.“
Stefan Schumacher is the president of the Magdeburg Institute for Security Research and editor of the Magdeburg Journal for Security Research in Magdeburg/Germany. He started his hacking career before the fall of the Berlin Wall, on a small East German computer with 1.75 MHz and a Datasette drive.
Ever since he liked to explore technical and social systems, with a focus on security and how to exploit them. He was a NetBSD developer for some years and involved in several other Open Source projects and events. He studied Educational Science and Psychology, has done a lot of unique research about the Psychology of Security with a focus on Social Engineering, User Training and Didactics of Security/Cryptography. Currently he's leading the research project Psychology of Security,focusing on fundamental qualitative and quantitative research about the perception and construction of security.
He presents the research results regularly at international conferences like AusCert Australia, Chaos Communication Congress, Chaos Communciation Camp, DeepSec Vienna, DeepIntel Salzburg, Positive Hack Days Moscow or LinuxDays Luxembourg and in security related journals and books.
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