The automotive industry forms a complex network of original equipment manufacturers and suppliers that requires a high level of cooperation in development projects. Therefore, an efficient identity management system is needed to control access to exchanged data and collaboratively used IT-solutions supporting the development ...

Although sophisticated identity management (IdM) technologies have been developed for quite a while, they are not as broadly used as could be expected - in the corporate but especially in an end-user context. Some authors have argued that the reason for this lack of diffusion is not to be found in technological or privacy ...

Platforms are becoming an increasingly important part of today’s and future innovations. However, from a privacy and security, as well as from a societal perspective, closed proprietary platforms, the currently dominant form, possess certain potentially problematic features. This is why many call for open ecosystem ...

The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) introduces privacy requirements that pose a complex challenge especially for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). In this paper, we present a software-supported process model developed by us that helps SMEs to establish processes ensuring the rights of the data ...

Various projects and initiatives strive towards designing privacy friendly open platforms and ecosystems for digital products and services. However, besides mastering technical challenges, achieving economic viability and broad market success has so far proven to be difficult for these initiatives. Based on a publicly ...

In order to build identity management (IdM) solutions that are secure in the practical application context, a holistic approach their IT-security risk analysis is required. This complements the indispensable technical, and crypto-focused analysis of risks and vulnerabilities with an approach that puts another important ...

Small and medium sized companies (SMEs) are often insufficiently protected against cyberattacks although there is a wide range of cybersecurity guidelines, products and services availableIn this paper, we present an online tool to support SMEs in improving their IT-security level by enabling them to identify critical ...

The threat of cybersecurity incidents is increasingly challenging for companies and employee interaction plays a crucial role in the majority of cyberattacks. In this paper, we present a mobile, scalable IT-security lab to investigate the human factor in such incidents. The lab enables study participants to experience ...