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Ready to rock InnoTrans 2022 day 1!

Ready to rock InnoTrans 2022 day 1!

Part 1: Understanding the role of friction In the world of trains, speed is often the star of the show. The rush of the landscape whizzing by is the sensation that captures our imagination. Yet, as any experienced engineer will tell you, the real hero of the railway isn’t the power to go, but the…
On my way to Berlin for our Competence Center Security workshop! At ICS – Informatik Consulting Systems, we have multiple Competence Centers, which focus on different areas such as RAMS, validation or my field: security. Since exchange of knowledge and experience is crucial in the field of security, we meet tomorrow for an in-person workshop…
The Polish Press Agency (PAP) reports a cyber attack on the Polish rail network in the north-west of the country in Szczecin. A BBC article reports: “Hackers broke into railway frequencies to disrupt traffic in the north-west of the country overnight, the Polish Press Agency (PAP) reported on Saturday.The signals were interspersed with recording of…
Patric Birr and I published an article in SIGNAL+DRAHT, the leading international medium for control and safety technology plus communication and information technology in the railway sector. In the article we propose automating Security Risk Assessments by using digital twins. These allow attack trees to be derived automatically enabling a systematic analysis of potential attack…
A short excerpt from my pitch on ‘Security for Safety’ as part of the BW-International Session at it-sa 2021 is available here: Post | LinkedIn
🎁 Christmas is coming and I’ve got a gift! 🎁 ✨Thank you Verband Deutscher Eisenbahn-Ingenieure e.V. (VDEI) for the nice present for being a speaker for ICS – Informatik Consulting Systems at last week’s rail security conference in Darmstadt. 📅 The calendar got a prominent spot in my office and will be with me for…