CERT.at: Annual Internet Security Report, Austria 2019

The Internet Security Report Austria 2019 by CERT.at and GovCERT Austria summarizes the most important topics of the year and provides an overview of the CERT activities.

Besides reporting CERT.at's statistics, the report describes the current status of political developments (NIS Act) and highlights national and international networking as well as various cooperations.

CERT.at is an initiative of the Austrian Domain-Registry nic.at, a company of the Internet Stiftung.

November 2020

Download the Annual Report 2019 (PDF)

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