Alliance for Security in Business

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Alliance for Security in Business
(ASW Bundesverband)
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legal form registered association
founding 1993
Seat Berlin , Germany
purpose Representation of the interests of the German economy in security issues vis-à-vis politics and the media
Chair Volker Wagner
Managing directors Dr. Christian Endreß (acting)
Website asw-bundesverband.de

The Alliance for Security in Business e. V. ( ASW Bundesverband ) is an interest group of the German economy. Before it was renamed in 2015, its old name was Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Sicherheit der Wirtschaft .

The main goal of the association is to represent the security concerns of the commercial economy vis-à-vis politics and administration in Germany and Europe as well as to promote the communication of security-relevant information between the state and the economy.

The association is a registered association at the district court of Berlin-Charlottenburg (VR 19931) and is headed by a full-time managing director.

aims

In its statutes, the association names the association's goals as follows:

  • professionally represent the security issues of the commercial economy to politics and administration in Germany and Europe
  • Promote cooperation between the state and business to ensure that protection needs are met efficiently.
  • Promote crime prevention and economic protection in the economy.
  • Promote professional training and professional development in the field of risk and safety management in the economy.
  • Promote cooperation among members on issues of operational safety.

history

In 1993 the direct predecessor, the Working Group for Economic Security , was founded with the participation of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry .

From 2008 the Federal Ministry of the Interior had an "Economic Protection Department". This group was composed of the Working Group for Economic Security , the ministries concerned ( Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology , Foreign Office , Federal Chancellery ) and federal security authorities ( Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Federal Intelligence Service , Federal Criminal Police Office and Customs Criminal Police Office ).

The ministerial group met twice a year to exchange information. The working group for the security of the economy took on the task of forwarding information from the departmental group to the companies and transferring information from the companies to the group. The department is currently inactive.

With the change in leadership from Jörg Peter to Volker Wagner in 2012, a realignment of the association began. In an interview with Annabelle Schott-Lung for the magazine W&S, Wagner names the following focal points:

  • a change in the image of ASW away from the "regulator and controller" to "security as a business enabler"
  • Establish "security as a design criterion" : Security must become an integral part of all processes
  • Establish security as a differentiating factor
  • Define security as a framework for action within laws and standards

On May 22, 2015, in the course of this realignment - after updating the association's goals and adopting new association statutes - the association name was also changed (current name to this day).

Structures

At the level of the federal states, regional associations for security in the economy maintain direct contact with the companies:

  • Alliance for Security in Business Baden-Württemberg eV (ASW-BW)
  • Alliance for Security in Business Central Germany eV (ASW-M)
  • Alliance for Security in Business North Germany eV (ASW Nord)
  • Alliance for Security in Business Saxony eV (ASW Saxony)
  • Alliance for Security in Business West eV (ASW West)
  • Bavarian Association for Security in Business eV (BVSW)
  • Association for Security in Business Berlin-Brandenburg eV (VSW-BB)

In addition, contact with individual professional groups is maintained by professional associations.

For this purpose, members of the ASW Bundesverband are:

  • Federal Association of Independent German Security Consultants and Engineers (BdSI)
  • Federal Association of Medium-sized Security Companies (BVMS)
  • German Fraud Forum (DFF)
  • German Council of Shopping Centers

Publications

The association magazine is the WIK magazine for economic security founded in 1979 by the television journalist Peter Hohl (until 1985 "Confidential Expert Letter on Economic Crime" ). The magazine is published by SecuMedia Verlags-GmbH and appears six times a year. In 2003, WIK became the most popular security magazine in Germany. To the homepage of the WIK

In addition, the association regularly publishes guidelines and position papers on current security issues on the association's own website.

public relation

As a result of the global surveillance and espionage affair in 2013, according to press releases, general risk awareness in the economy increased. This was the result of the 11th WIK / ASW safety survey, a survey of safety experts on a voluntary basis. According to this, around 2/3 of the experts expected an increasing threat to companies from cybercrime and saw attacks on communication and company data as the greatest threat. In this context, however, the Working Group for Economic Security warned that although awareness of dangers was increasing, the willingness to act was still too low.

Together with the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the ASW Bundesverband is also organizing an annual security conference on economic protection under the motto "Prevention through information" . The last event took place in May 2015, the theme of the year was “Internal perpetrators - an underestimated danger in companies” . As the responsible publisher, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution publishes an information sheet on this conference every year.

Web links

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  1. ↑ website of mybreev ( Memento of 10 June 2015, Internet Archive ) GmbH, accessed on June 10, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b Information from the Frankfurt am Main Chamber of Commerce and Industry, WiFo 04 | 11: Effective protection of espionage know-how .
  3. ↑ https://asw-bundesverband.de/ueber-uns/
  4. ↑ a b New statutes of the ASW (PDF), accessed on June 8, 2015.
  5. ↑ Annabelle Schott-Lung (2012) Fit for the Future - Reorientation of the ASW ; Technical article from W&S 06/2012, pp. 12 to 13
  6. ↑ a b Membership page of the ASW Federal Association , accessed on June 8, 2015.
  7. ^ WIK - Zeitschrift für die Sicherheit der Wirtschaft ( Memento from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 8, 2015.
  8. ↑ To the download center of the ASW Federal Association
  9. ^ Carolina Machhaus German companies fear data theft - espionage , Deutsche Welle on August 6, 2013.
  10. ↑ Peter Schmitz Wirtschaft sees increasing dangers from cybercrime , Security-Insider May 13, 2013.
  11. ↑ Schlaglicht des [1] BfV, accessed on June 8, 2015.
  12. ↑ Information publications of the protection of the constitution