The excitement around the interception of intelligence [1] is great, but in practice little effect on the Internet industry will be expected to think at least Peter Knapp, Managing Director of Interxion Frankfurt provider of data center space. The company is one of the largest providers of data center and colocation services in Europe. In his Frankfurt data centers are also the De-CIX, which is – based on the data throughput -. Largest Internet Exchange in the world
The debate over the eavesdropping scandals affected the business of Internet connections are not according to Knapp’s observation. In an interview with H, he pointed out, the whole economy, but also individuals are now so dependent on the digital services that “no one can seriously imagine today to waive emails or on their smartphones.” To discussions on possible activities of the NSA wiretapping Knapp declined to comment. The Interxion campus anyway trying to be “the security for the computers of our customers as much as humanly possible to organize.” For what may happen outside the campus “Then the operators of large networks are responsible.”
According to Knapp’s view, “but this discussion also act as an investment accelerator” could. IT security companies have even at large has not yet been the prominence it deserves. “People were often surprised by company, of which they had not believed it to read that they had a security problem in their IT infrastructure,” Knapp said. Moreover, no one knows how many holes open attack were not even known to the public. Interxion CEO now sees the chance that this neglected area “finally emerges from the debate alone among IT specialists and each user makes thoughts about whether he is doing everything for the safety of their data.” Last but not least, underlined Knapp, could now perhaps “the hour of encryption technology have beaten that was indeed propagated repeatedly many years ago, which was unfortunately never took it seriously.” Would probably encryption programs that have not been applied in recent years due to their complexity, “are designed simply for the user through the ongoing monitoring debate”. While e-mail service providers such as Lavabit apparently under pressure from the U.S. authorities adjust their service [2] , read the proposed by Deutsche Telekom and United Internet measures for e-mail encryption [3] said ! by Knapp direction – even if activists like Netzpolitik.org the announcements dismissed as pure marketing campaign [4] . Interxion, meanwhile, wants to invest another 30 million euros in expanding its data center capacity in Frankfurt. <- AUTHOR MARKER DATA BEGIN -> ( Hermann Wygoda ) / <- RSPEAK_STOP -> ( map [5] )<- RSPEAK_START -> <- AUTHOR DATA MARKER END ->
