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C. Loebbecke and /. Thomas, Physics, and Cybernetics at the University of Cologne, Germany. After finishing his PhD and his habilitation, in 1986 Bernhard Thomas joined SUPRENUM where he managed the parallelization of numeric application software for the first German MIMD Supercomputer Project he became CTO in charge of the IT-Infrastructure of the corporate group. Since 2008, he has focused on the IT-Infrastructure-Strategy und IT Security. Contact: bernhard.thomas<at>conti.de. Thomas Ullrich is Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Corporate IT of Continental AG since he worked as systems engineer for ICA (Informationsysteme Consulting and Applications GmbH) in the field of software engineering environments, he joined the IT Infrastructure strategy department of Continental and took over the responsibilty for information security topics which became his new focus area, 1991.