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"Die Bedrohung durch russische Cyber-Angriffe"

March 13, 2022 | WELT am Sonntag
Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar, director of the Digital Society Institute (DSI) at ESMT, explains the threat of Russian cyberattacks on Ukraine.

"Kyiv’s hackers seize their wartime moment"

March 10, 2022 | Politico
Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar, director of the Digital Society Institute (DSI) at ESMT, on how Ukrainian cyber experts put their skills to use retaliating against Moscow.

"Does the European Chips Act herald a new protective policy era?"

March 9, 2022 | ESMT Knowledge
Lola Attenberger, researcher at the Digital Society Institute (DSI), explores the protective industrial policy measures of the European Chips Act.

"Cyberattacks, Russia, and the changing face of war in the 21st century"

March 9, 2022 | Penn Today
Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar, director of the Digital Society Institute (DSI) at ESMT, shares her expertise in cybersecurity and how cyber methods are being utilized during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

"The 5×5—What’s in a cyber strategy?"

February 28, 2022 | Atlantic Council
Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar, director of the Digital Society Institute (DSI) at ESMT, on cyber strategy and its specific niche in national cyber readiness, resilience, and policy coordination.

"U.S., European Allies Offer Ukraine Cyberdefense"

February 1, 2022 | Wall Street Journal
Providing support to a country after a major cyberattack is tricky since outside help can get in the way of domestic experts who know their technology systems best, explains Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar, director of the Digital Society Institute (DSI) at ESMT.

"Cybersicherheit ist längst Mainstream-Thema der europäischen Außenpolitik"

January 27, 2022 | Tagesspiegel Background
Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar, head of the Digital Society Institute (DSI) at ESMT, explains more about executive education, cybersecurity on the supervisory board, and Russian cyber activities.

"govdigital ernennt Martin Schallbruch zum CEO"

January 14, 2022 | eGovernment Computing
Since January 2022, Martin Schallbruch, former director of the Digital Society Institute at ESMT Berlin, has been the new CEO of the nationwide cooperative govdigital.

"'Verdächtiges' Detail deutet auf Facebook-Hack hin"

October 5, 2021 | ntv
Facebook, Whatsapp, and Instagram services were down for hours and internal communication is collapsing. The company cites human error as the cause, but Sandro Gaycken, director at the Digital Society Institute (DSI) at ESMT Berlin, believes "suspicious" anomalies point to a hacker attack.

"Wenn Behörden von Cyberkriminellen erpresst werden"

September 17, 2021 | MDR Aktuell
Martin Schallbruch, director of the Digital Society Institute (DSI) at ESMT Berlin spoke about how the government and companies can protect themselves from cyberattacks.

„Das Problem ist, wenn Digitalisierung auf deutsche staatliche Ordnung trifft'“

August 6, 2021 | Börsen-Zeitung
Digitalization has arrived in all policy areas in the legislative period that is coming to an end, says Martin Schallbruch, director of the Digital Society Institute at ESMT Berlin.

"Deutschland, deine Bürokratie"

June 28, 2021 | Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Martin Schallbruch, director of the Digital Society Institute at ESMT Berlin, talks about administration in Germany and why the state often gets in its own way.

Privacy-friendly AI for the public sector: Xayn and the Digital Society Institute at ESMT Berlin publish joint position paper

June 22, 2021 | ESMT Press
The Digital Society Institute (DSI) at ESMT Berlin and Xayn highlight the potential of a decentralized new approach to implement and futureproof governmental AI strategies and elaborate on potential use cases in the health sector and law enforcement.

"Datenschutzfreundliche KI für den öffentlichen Sektor"

June 22, 2021 | Tagesspiegel Background
In government, the use of AI often fails because of the privacy dilemma. New decentralized, privacy-friendly technologies such as masked federated learning could change that, explain Martin Schallbruch, director at the Digital Society Institute at ESMT Berlin, and Michael Huth.

"US success in Colonial ransomware attack 'spectacular'"

June 8, 2021 | Deutsche Welle
The FBI has recouped almost all the Bitcoin ransom paid in connection with the cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline. Isabel Skierka from ESMT Berlin told DW this was a sign US law enforcement can get online criminals even abroad.