Five fronts, one blind spot: Why domain security will become a top priority in 2026
Domain deletions・authority-ordered disconnection・certificate expiry dates・98% lacking state-of-the-art baseline protection・NIS2 liability Five risks simultaneously affect the one area that no ISMS covers and no CISO has on their agenda: domains.
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Management lecture
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German
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Speaker: Daniel Strauß
A faulty update brings 8.5 million computers to a standstill. Hardly anyone has fully considered the lesson from 2024:
If a single infrastructure component fails, they all fail. This component exists in every organisation. It features in no ISMS, on no CISO’s agenda, in no contingency plan … and yet it underpins the entire security stack: EDR, SIEM, VPN, cloud, email.
The domain.
In 2026, five developments simultaneously hit this very blind spot:
- an EU-driven verification requirement that takes domains offline from one day to the next,
- a draft bill allowing the state direct access to name resolution … without a judge, without justification,
- drastically shortened certificate validity periods, which turn manual ...
