13 October 2019: Pilz is at a stand\u00adstill fol\u00adlowing a hacker attack. Data on servers and com\u00adputers around the world has been encrypted to exact a ransom. But the com\u00adpany imme\u00addi\u00adately switches gears. With agile methods and thanks to the employees\u2019 tremen\u00addous ded\u00adi\u00adca\u00adtion, Pilz quickly recov\u00adered. The com\u00adpany is open about the attack, reg\u00adu\u00adlarly informing its employees and the public. Pilz received the Baden-W\u00fcrt\u00adtem\u00adberg safety award this year for its exem\u00adplary crisis com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thomas Strobl, \u00adDig\u00adi\u00adtal\u00adi\u00adsa\u00adtion Min\u00adister and Deputy Min\u00adister Pres\u00adi\u00addent of Baden- W\u00fcrt\u00adtem\u00adberg, and Min\u00adister of Eco\u00adnomic Affairs Dr Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut pre\u00adsented the award to Thomas Pilz. \u201cAn authentic and open han\u00addling of a cyber attack is absolutely nec\u00ades\u00adsary to suc\u00adcess\u00adfully take action against this type of crime,\u201d praised Thomas Strobl. \u201cA strong aware\u00adness among our com\u00adpa\u00adnies for safety mat\u00adters is more impor\u00adtant than ever to main\u00adtain and strengthen the eco\u00adnomic suc\u00adcess of our state.\u201d The threat to data and exper\u00adtise has unfor\u00adtu\u00adnately become a con\u00adstant com\u00adpanion in com\u00adpany processes. And yet, the topic is still fre\u00adquently under\u00ades\u00adti\u00admated. The safety award is meant to raise com\u00adpa\u00adnies\u2019 aware\u00adness of these risks and pro\u00admote the inno\u00adva\u00adtion poten\u00adtial in this area,\u201d added Dr Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From the very begin\u00adning, Pilz openly com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcated about the hacker attack to cus\u00adtomers and the public in order to raise aware\u00adness about the dan\u00adgers of cyber attacks. Thomas Pilz in \u00adpar\u00adtic\u00adular has given many talks on the topic since then and has sup\u00adported and advised other com\u00adpa\u00adnies affected by this. While receiving the award, he expressly thanked the law enforce\u00adment per\u00adforming the inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtion for their \u00adsup\u00adport. He also men\u00adtioned the work of the Pilz employees who gave their all to ensure that the com\u00adpany made it through those dark days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2nd place was awarded to Porsche AG, the energy provider EnBW Energie Baden-W\u00fcrt\u00adtem\u00adberg and col\u00adlec\u00adtively the trans\u00adport and logis\u00adtics com\u00adpa\u00adnies SVG S\u00fcd and smartSEC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After Pilz was the victim of a cyber attack in October 2019, the com\u00adpany launched a com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtion offen\u00adsive. As part of the 4th Cyber\u00adSicher\u00adheits\u00adForum, a forum for cyber secu\u00adrity pre\u00adsented by the state of Baden-W\u00fcrt\u00adtem\u00adberg, Pilz received the safety award for their response. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industrial-security","category-issue-2-2022","category-pilz-magazine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1682,"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/1682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}