>> Cybersecurity is one
of the fundamental part of
Siemens services at
the moment because we
are permanently as a big
company under attack.
>> We have approximately
300,000 employees spread
across 2,000 locations in
almost each and every
country on the planet.
We have health care,
we have energy distribution,
we build trains,
we have even a
Siemens bank so we are
also active in the
financial business and
due to the size of
this company and
due to the different
groups of people,
there is typically not
a one size fits all solution
to protect everything.
>> That's the fun,
that's the challenge
to really coordinate
that and say yes,
we are able to protect Siemens.
>> We decided to go in direction
zero trust and we started with
the Enhanced Microsoft
Security as a joint project
between IT and cyber security.
>> A focus area
of zero trust for
Siemens is never
trust always verify.
In the past, we had a
best-of-breed strategy so
that means we have lots
of different systems,
the problem which comes with
best of breed is simply that
you need to integrate
them in order to
have a full visibility
of all the data.
It's expensive to operate,
you do not have always even
the technical possibility
to combine all of
those things so
that's why we changed from
a best of breed strategy
to best of suite.
For Siemens, the best of
suite approach is important
because we have a single pane of
glass of all of
the different Microsoft
security systems in one place,
where we can act on,
on a central way,
and in real-time.
We do not really just touch
the normal application access,
we also go into the factories,
into the shop floors,
and even into our product.
How does a train communicate
with its system in
a zero trust model?
If you consider those things
then it's becoming
really exciting.
We have one of the most
complex and biggest
Active Directory
on the planet and also
if we compare our
Azure tenants or
Microsoft 365 tenant, it's huge.
>> This gives us the chance
to control access to our data,
so from my user perspective
it's easier,
from our perspective as
cyber security we
have more control.
>> Not too many vendors on
the planet which are capable to
integrate all of the complexity
which Siemens has
into one system,
in order to achieve and to
raise the security
bar as we did.
That's why we have
chosen Microsoft.
>> That's great having
all experts on board,
having the mindset on board,
having the clear focus that
we want to become a
Zero Trust Company.
That's what I'm proud
of. That's Siemens.