Isabel Münch

Isabel Münch (* before 1963) is a German mathematician and, as an IT security expert, is responsible for the IT basic protection catalog .

Career

After graduating from high school in 1981 at the Helmholtz Gymnasium in Bonn , Münch studied mathematics with a minor in computer science at the University of Bonn from 1982 to 1989 . Her diploma thesis had a number-theoretical topic ( zeta functions of disintegrated Bieberbach groups ). She then worked from 1990 to 1993 at debis Systemhaus GEI in the IT security department. In 1994 she joined the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) as a data security expert . From 2002 to 2013, Münch was head of the division for system security and basic IT protection at the BSI. She was a founding member of the "Security - Protection and Reliability" department in theGesellschaft für Informatik (GI) and deputy spokesperson for this department from 2002 to 2006. From 2013 to 2014 she was Head of Division for the Alliance for Cyber ​​Security, the BSI Penetration Center and Information Security Revision at the BSI, and from December 2014 she headed the Division for IT Baseline Protection and the Alliance for Cyber ​​Security. She has been Head of Preventive Cyber ​​Security and Critical Infrastructures at the BSI since 2017.

Her work focuses on the further development of the IT basic protection manual (standard security measures for IT systems), the management and coordination of IT security analyzes and IT security consulting with a focus on banking and e-commerce . She also represents the BSI in various national and international committees with a focus on IT security management.

Even if the public perceives the greater threat from espionage attacks by foreign countries, according to investigations by Münch, criminal hackers represent the main threat to companies as online criminals. However, authorities can also fall victim to such cyber attacks. One of the challenges for IT security research is to find out about cases of cyber crime at all: Entrepreneurs are usually not interested in publicizing possible breaches of their IT systems, because nobody likes to admit that their IT and It is possible that customer data is not stored securely and in a manner that is spying-proof, even if "all complex systems ... have errors somewhere".

Awards

• 2015 GI Fellow of the Society for Computer Science

Publications (excerpt)

• Isabel Münch: Security aspects in electronic commerce . Bundesanzeiger, Cologne 1999., ISBN 978-3-88784-935-1
• Isabel Münch, Stefan Fünfrocken: IT security structures in the German banking industry SecuMedia-Verlag, Ingelheim, 2002., ISBN 978-3-922746-38-6
• Isabel Münch: Microsoft Internet Information Server : Security Study . SecuMedia, Ingelheim 2003., ISBN 978-3-922746-47-8
• Isabel Münch: Apache web server . Security study . 2003, ISBN 978-3-922746-46-1
• Stephan Weber, Stefan Kronschnabl, Elmar Török, Isabel Münch: Study information security and emergency management, trends 2012 [survey on the status quo, trends and future requirements] . SecuMedia-Verlag Gau-Algesheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-922746-81-2
• Isabel Münch: Basic IT protection for coping with IT risks in companies . In: Torsten Founder: IT Security Management Manual. Risks, Basel II, law Erich Schmidt Verlag , 2007, pp. 285-308 ISBN 978-3-503-10002-6

Literature reviews

• Publications indexed in the Digital Bibliography & Library Project (DBLP)
• Publications on the academic literature search engine Google Scholar
• Publications at ResearchGate
• Literature by and about Isabel Münch in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Catalog of ULB Bonn , query on January 18, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} Torsten founder: Management manual IT security. Risks, Basel II, law Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co KG, 2007, ISBN 978-3-503-10002-6 ( limited preview )
3. ↑ Management committee of the department "Security - Protection and Reliability" in the Society for Computer Science
4. ↑ Profile Isabel Münch ( Memento of the original dated November 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the conference “Rethink! IT Security 2018 "in April 2018 in Hamburg 
5. ↑ Criminal hackers more dangerous than NSA . In: n-tv . July 25, 2014
6. ↑ Bettina Dobe: Cyber ​​forensic experts are the digital fire brigade . In: Computerwoche . September 30, 2014
7. ↑ Sandro Gaycken: Holes in the net . In: Der Tagesspiegel . February 21, 2014
8. ↑ GI Fellow ( Memento of the original dated November 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Society for Computer Science