KMU AWARE - Awareness im Mittelstand

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs; in German: KMU) face new and emerging challenges in protecting themselves against digital attacks. This is exacerbated by the trend towards digital processing and paperless offices. Possible consequences of successful attacks are reputational damage, financial loss or losses in the customer base. The project KMU AWARE, which is supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, aims to assist German KMUs in their ability to identify and fend off possible dangers associated with the use of the Internet. We are working together with our project partner usd in developing an awareness and educational platform that is closely aligned with the actual needs and requirements of SMEs. On the one hand, existing promising approaches can be adapted and incorporated into the platform.

The results of the project are available free of charge to the SMEs. Until now the anti-phishing training "NoPhish" and a training program (German only) have been developed to recognize fraudulent news. Further information about the project KMU AWARE can be found on the website of the TU Darmstadt based research group SECUSO.