Jens Käsbauer

Phishing e-mails pose the greatest threat to businesses today with over 90% of all attacks on IT infrastructure coming off the back of one. It’s crucial that it is as difficult as possible for criminals to succeed in this way, both for your company as a whole and your reputation. BIMI is the latest way you can protect your brand, giving your customers the peace of mind that the e-mails they receive really are from you, by placing your logo directly next to your e-mail in customers’ inboxes. Read on to find out how BIMI works and you can benefit.

Everything used to be so easy. All an organisation needed was a professionally managed firewall and a virus scanner and they were all set, but over the last couple of decades, cyber criminality has become increasingly professional and new ways of working have become the norm. In order to keep pace with these new requirements, numerous providers have flooded the market with a whole raft of solutions, that make management incredibly complex. It's time for a new approach. Read on to find out how to protect your organisation along the entire cyber kill chain with only one provider.

Digitalisation, mobile working, flexibility, cloud computing—buzzwords we are all very familiar with these days. Despite that, many companies are battling to keep up with the changes, not only in terms of corporate culture and modern working styles, but also with respect to IT infrastructure.

In the first part of the interview with Stephan Verstegen, we discovered how important it is to have a cloud strategy, the benefits of hybrid cloud scenarios and how Microsoft Azure can reduce data centre expenditure. In this second part, we turn our attention to the topics of data protection and security, the modern workplace and the benefits of the partnership between Bechtle and Microsoft.

A few months ago, countless businesses were suddenly put on the spot to equip employees for working from home. Collaboration tools were introduced early on to keep teams productive and operations largely up and running. But where will we go from here? No longer the exception to the rule, remote workers must embrace a new day-to-day routine. And even companies that can’t afford agile working models as a permanent standard should keep the momentum that the current crisis injected into digitalisation going. Now is the time to get data centres ready for the future, and one way to do this is by replacing ageing server hardware with virtual systems in the Microsoft Cloud. Just how can you pull this off? Our expert, Stephan Verstegen, answers this and other questions in our interview.

When Germany’s largest IT service provider teams up with the world’s best known software publisher to host an event exploring modern solutions to the challenges of digitalisation, visitors expect outstanding speakers, first-rate presentations and a number of interesting new features and solutions for the modern workplace. More than 600 people attended Bechtle Microsoft World 2019, which was held in late November at the Messe Offenburg-Ortenau conference centre in Germany.

Modern Workplace—How can you incorporate this into your company? Many are now facing the challenge of how to go from their existing tools to a comprehensive Digital Workplace concept as important part of a digital strategy. How can you integrate your existing tools as smoothly as possible? And what steps should you take now? We’ve summarised the key points and questions to help you on your way to the Modern Digital Workplace.

What does a modern workplace actually look like? Workplace of the future, modern workspace, modern workplace, digital workplace—do these all just describe the same thing? And how do you go about making your business a modern digital workplace? In this article, we dispel the five most common myths.

She’s among the who’s who of the IT security scene. Paula Januszkiewicz is a renowned Microsoft security expert and trainer. As one of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professionals, she is also frequently invited to speak at large conferences. In early April, the Münster training centre hosted Ms Januszkiewicz’s second Hacking and Securing Windows Infrastructure masterclass. We spoke with one of the participants about his experience.

The lack of skilled workforce and management isn't just a political issue. With sophisticated training concepts aligned with actual requirements, companies can take training their employees in hand. We’ll also show you that training services means you can do away with expensive and time-consuming training visits.

Trends can be tricky. As soon as you understand the concept behind the current buzzword, everyone has already moved on to the next big thing. In times of transition, such as the one currently under way in the IT industry, it’s easy to lose sight of the big picture—and your sense of what’s truly important. One example of a new development keeping everyone on their toes is serverless computing. To keep you in the loop, we’re here to explain what it is.