Articles on security concepts, the Berlin building operations regulation and auditing guarding services.
Germany's revised BSI Act has applied since 6 December 2025 with no transition period, and covers over 29,000 companies instead of 4,000. Section 30(1) speaks exclusively of information systems — but two of the ten measures in subsection 2 have a side no IT provider covers.
The KRITIS Umbrella Act has been in force since 17 March 2026 — and it is not an IT law. Section 13(3) requires perimeter demarcation, access control and detection, and the sectors it applies to are purely physical. Plus the question of when the deadlines actually begin to run.
Berlin's building operations regulation requires a fire safety officer in three separate places — independently of each other, without discretion, and each carrying a fine. Who is affected, and what the appointment actually sets in motion.
