Practice-orientated and flexible. This was the basic idea behind the IT security recommendations back in 1994 when the first edition of the IT-Grunschutz manual was published. Three decades later, it is not only the world of IT-Grundschutz that has changed.

IT-Grundschutz has always been dynamic, whether in its early days, when the Internet became a mass phenomenon, or today, when it comes to the ongoing development of digitalisation in public authorities and companies, when sub-areas such as artificial intelligence (AI) are developing rapidly and, above all, when the vision of a cyber nation Germany is to become reality. IT baseline protection has established itself as a nationally and internationally recognised standard in the area of information security.

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