Personal threats

• Phishing, skimming of access authorisations
• Converting personal computers into "zombies" in sometimes huge botnets for external criminal activities
• Spying on personal data
• Compromising data integrity
• Loss of data and/or functional loss/impairment

Threats to the university

• Impairment of the functionality of the IT infrastructure (DoS or DDoS attacks)
• Damage to the reputation of the TU (hacking) reputation of the TU (hacking of websites, security incidents)
• loss of data, impairment of research data, electronic teaching content or administrative information
• impairment of data protection
• exploitation of the IT infrastructure for criminal activities
• problem of joint liability or claims as a disruptive party

• Legal freedom of teaching and research
• Right to uninterrupted, unhindered and secure use
• Copyright, rights of use of online resources and software
• Content providers and access intermediaries within the meaning of the TKG and TMG
• Liability as a corporate body vs. personal liability
• Internal university regulations and guidelines

• Firewall
• Protection of active network components
• Virus scan of incoming and outgoing emails
• Sophos Antivirus
• Measures on the central servers
• Decentralised measures

• Personal responsibility
• Use of the local firewall
• Use of automatic security updates
• Use of antivirus software
• Regular updates of third-party software applications
• Use of alternative operating systems