June 2026
All 7 isidaten articles from June 2026.
Data center documentation that doesn't lie: why static plans fail
Every data center has a nice diagram that was correct the day it was drawn and has aged ever since. The moment someone swaps a server, repatches or a device fails, the documentation lies. Why static plans fail systematically, what living documentation changes, and why the data center inventory is also compliance substance.
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Supply chain risk: responsibility does not end at your firewall
Your own security level is only as high as that of your service providers. Yet many organizations treat supplier review as a one-time questionnaire that gets filled in and forgotten. NIS2 turns it into a continuous obligation. isidaten manages suppliers, contracts and processors as traceable objects instead of an Excel silo.
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Attack surface management: you can't protect what you can't see
The way into a network is rarely the spectacular zero-day. More often it is the forgotten asset nobody had on their radar anymore. isidaten makes the attack surface continuously visible from outside and inside, and matches it automatically against current vendor advisories.
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New Veeam connector: turning backups into provable recoverability
isidaten now connects directly to Veeam Backup & Replication. Backup jobs, sessions and repositories flow automatically into the central object base, turning the mere existence of backups into provable recovery evidence.
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NIS2: The first audit evidence is due, and why it shouldn't be a deadline
Around 30 June 2026 the first NIS2 evidence becomes due for many affected entities. Scrambling for proof at the deadline doesn't solve the real problem. Why evidence should be a state, not a one-off effort.
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Firewall governance through a single agent: isidaten captures rule sets from eight vendors
Orphaned rules, sprawling rule sets, no overview: isidaten reads firewall configurations from FortiGate to host firewalls via the isidaten agent and makes them auditable, across vendors on a single object base.
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isidaten makes GRC AI-ready: New MCP module for secure AI access
With the new MCP module, AI assistants access your isidaten data in a controlled, tenant-separated and permission-based way, via the open Model Context Protocol.
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