From ticket gates to security architecture: what Germany can learn from other countries Will access to the platform soon be restricted to holders of a valid ticket only? The idea of platform barriers is back in Germany. Yet even a brief international comparison shows...
AI and Panoramic Cameras Automate Bird Protection at Wind Farms
Wind turbines must generate electricity as efficiently as possible while also meeting increasingly demanding environmental and species-protection requirements. Fleximaus has developed the FlexiBird solution together with Axis Communications to address this challenge....
Closing the Reporting Gap: German Security Network Proposes Nationwide Drone Alert Channel
Germany is expanding its counter-UAS capabilities in response to a growing number of suspicious drone incidents around airports, military sites and critical infrastructure. Yet the debate has so far concentrated largely on detection technology, operational...
Bavaria’s 2026 cyber report: authorities and critical infrastructure face growing pressure
Bavaria’s latest cybersecurity assessment points to a threat landscape that is becoming both more complex and more politically charged. Alongside businesses, public authorities and critical infrastructure operators are increasingly being targeted by professional...
Berlin faces multi-million-euro ransom demand following cyberattack
Berlin is facing a ransom demand following the cyberattack on several of the German capital’s Senate administrations. Governing Mayor Kai Wegner has ruled out paying the attackers, while state and federal security authorities continue to investigate the extent to...
Europe’s data-centre power test: can clean energy keep the continent competitive?
Europe wants sovereign AI infrastructure, more cloud capacity and substantially greater computing power. Yet the global data-centre race may ultimately be decided by something far less digital: electricity. Germany is rapidly expanding renewable generation but remains...
Editor’s Note: A jacket is not a privacy strategy
Facial recognition is moving out of the control room and into everyday life. If cameras, artificial intelligence and biometric identification converge in devices that look like ordinary glasses, the change will not simply be technological. It will alter the balance...
Editor’s note: Organised crime has become a service industry
Operation Jackal IV is significant not simply because of the number of arrests it produced, but because of what it reveals about the structure of contemporary organised crime. Technical infrastructure, social engineering and money laundering are increasingly...
Aerial scouts are reshaping perimeter protection
Drones add a capability that conventional site security has so far lacked: they can not only detect suspicious activity, but also track it across large areas. Security service provider autosecure demonstrates how unmanned aircraft can be integrated with sensors,...
Hesse Strengthens Municipal Cyber Resilience with New Malware Analysis Sandbox
A new pilot project developed by the Hessen CyberCompetenceCenter and Hochschule Fresenius is designed to help municipalities analyse suspicious files in an isolated environment. Yet the initiative points to a broader shift in public-sector cybersecurity: from...




