usd AG has been issued the PCI DSS Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) Licence for CEMEA („Central Europe, Middle East & Africa“) by the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC).
Christopher Kristes, Head of the PCI & Payment Security department: “The growing number of international tenders illustrate the increasing demand and the current situation. Receiving this licence is an important and necessary step for us towards certifying companies on an international scale.”
The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has published the Community Draft of the AI Audit and Assurance Assessment Architecture (A5) (currently available in German only), thus starting the consultation phase. A5 is intended to create a standardized...
Current developments in AI systems show that vulnerabilities are found more quickly, suitable exploits are developed more quickly, and attacks are increasingly implemented automatically. This significantly reduces the time between discovery and exploitation. What used...
On 30 June 2026, all credit institutions and financial services institutions in Germany received an important circular: Following the consultation phase, the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bafin) published the 9th amendment to its Minimum Requirements...