At the KOMI Future Workshop 2026 on 5 February 2026 at Wizemann Stuttgart, Hans-Wilhelm Dünn, President of the Cyber-Sicherheitsrat Deutschland e.V. (Cyber Security Council Germany e.V.), clearly framed cybersecurity as a question of capability and power — not an IT detail.
In the Smarter Service interview with Bernhard Steimel, he emphasized that digital attacks are already affecting hospitals, energy supply, production, and supply chains in everyday life — and can become an existential risk for SMEs within just a few days. At the same time, he warned against “paper security”: laws such as NIS-2 and the KRITIS umbrella act are important, but they do not replace operational resilience — meaning clear responsibilities, trained crisis teams, functioning recovery plans, reliable backups, and OT/IT architectures designed to prevent cascading effects.
Cybersecurity belongs at executive level because it determines continuity, trust, and strategic autonomy — or, as Dünn put it in essence: in the past, policymakers had little use for “ones and zeros”; today, the binary world determines whether critical services and value creation function at all.
Read the full article by Gunnar Sohn (10 Feb 2026), “KOMI-Zukunftswerkstatt: Cybersicherheit als Staatsräson”:
https://www.smarter-service.com/2026/02/10/komi-zukunftswerkstatt-cybersicherheit-als-staatsraeson/