Customised IT Security with Modularity and Open Source

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In our digital world, data is amongst the most valuable as well as the most vulnerable goods we have; this is especially true for personal data. Thus, for all organisations processing or managing personal data a customised IT security concept is imperative. More often than not, the necessary individual requirements cannot be satisfied with just…

Peter Gietz as Guest on Podcast for Digital Humanities

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  Since July 2020, the podcast RaDiHum 20 takes the Digital Humanities out of the academic context and brings it into our homes. In each episode, new guests discuss different topics with the team of hosts, for instance which new technology is gaining more traction, interesting new projects, or upcoming workshops within the context of…

Shibboleth Security Advisory – SP: Denial of Service Due to DataSealer

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Dear customers, A new security advisory for the product Shibboleth Service Provider (SP) was released on April 26th, 2021 [1]. It describes a security vulnerability which enables attackers to manipulate certain cookies to make the SP crash (Denial of Service). This error is considered to be medium-critical. All operating systems are affected. We recommend for…

Safe Contactless Communication with Open Source: Meet “Jitsi Meet”

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  Due to the Corona pandemic, the world is once again increasingly concerned with the topic of contactless communication, and the pressure for digitisation is also tangibly intensifying in all aspects of our lives. In May 2020, DAASI International reached out to NGOs and other charitable organisations with a special offer: to provide a managed…

Federated IdM for Libraries – SeamlessAccess.org and FIM4L, Two Sides of the Same Coin

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The steady progress of digitisation of our everyday lives does not come without its challenges despite all the opportunities it creates. One of the big challenges is data protection, which is also at the center of an overall heated discourse, especially in the context of cooperation potential enabled by digital innovation. The more data is…

Five Good Reasons for Open Source

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“In the beginning all software was free” – Georg Greve Fit for the Future with Open Source – 5 Arguments to Consider in Your Company’s Evalutation Process Experiencing a renaissance, open source software enjoys increasing popularity amongst all kinds of companies and organisations. However, the surge in popularity is not even all that new, back…

Artificial Intelligence and Racism – Commentary by Peter Gietz

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  In our digitised world, we encounter Artificial Intelligence (AI) all the time, and in almost all aspects of our daily lives. It is possible to simply ask the voice-activated assistant on your smartphone for directions, or you can take funny photos with a filter, which automatically recognises the human face. But Artificial Intelligence also…

DAASI International Will Become an “Architect for the Next Generation Internet”

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European Commission Promotes Software Development to Increase Data Security The IT-service provider DAASI International from Tübingen is going to join the EU-project Next Generation Internet (NGI). The project seeks to develop sustainable encryption and authentication technologies for the next generation Internet. Ultimately, these new technologies are supposed to also prepare for the new challenges which…
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