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IT Security in Germany: The Persistent Cyber
IT Security in Germany: The Persistent Cyber
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Sep 24, 2025
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In 2025, Germany's cybersecurity remains a core challenge for businesses, characterized by constantly evolving cyber threats and significant new regulatory pressures. While large companies are becoming progressively more resilient with greater investments, small and medium businesses (SMEs) feel the widening cybersecurity gap. The threat landscape is fueled by the sophistication of cybercriminals, the misuse of innovative technologies like AI, and continuing scarcity of qualified cybersecurity professionals.
Rising Threat Landscape and Targeted Sectors ??
The number one cyber threat to German businesses in 2025 is still ransomware. Threat actors are getting more professionalized and specialized, and newer groups are growing in popularity. Ransomware attacks are no longer just about encryption; they have become double extortion, with attackers exfiltrating data and threatening to leak it if the ransom is not paid. This tremendously raises the stakes of reputational loss as well as financial loss.
Other notable risks include sophisticated phishing attacks that are now aided by AI to create very advanced and realistic frauds. These attacks target rich information industries such as finance, retail, and e-commerce specifically. Supply chain attacks are also on an upward trend since one breach of a service provider can reveal a huge number of their customers. This is particularly threatening to German businesses since they possess a very connected base of industries.
The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) notes the troubling trend of attacks on municipalities and IT service providers, as compromising any of them can have extensive repercussions for their customers. Manufacturing remains the most frequently attacked sector by ransomware, proof that useful information and business disruption can be leveraged to demand payment.
Regulatory Changes and Compliance Burden
Among the main drivers of change in 2025 is the transposition of the EU's NIS2 Directive into German law through the NIS2 Implementation and Cybersecurity Strengthening Act (NIS2UmsuCG). The new act significantly expands the number of firms with stringent cybersecurity burdens from approximately 4,500 to some 29,500. This now covers many SMEs that were exempted from such law previously.
The new law imposes on both "essential entities" and "important entities" a number of compulsory requirements including:
Extensive risk management with contingency and backup planning.
Three-tier incident reporting to the BSI.
Supply chain security.
Employee and managerial compulsory training in cybersecurity
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The directive also makes sanctions and high liability for managers possible, rendering IT security a problem that is not just technical, but rather an essential governing obligation.
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