It’s a Crash with a message: If on 14.January 2020, the Support for the operating system “Windows 7”, it could also make tens of thousands of computers in the administration of Berlin. Because of the Windows-maker Microsoft after the closing date with no Updates available, must be converted to the machine until then, on the newer System “Windows 10”. Otherwise, hackers have it easy to create via the network connections access to on the computers. There are sensitive data, of Senate administrations, district offices, fire Department, or the courts – and thus of citizens.
A day-to-day level, this answer is for information and communication technology competent Secretary of state, Sabine Smentek (SPD) at the request of the FDP-politician Bernd Schlömer shows: The current state of the System changes, can appear questionable, that Berlin is able to comply with the deadline. Already in may 2017 Smentek had to have the operation of Windows 7 computers after the 30. November 2019 prohibited. Of almost 78000 in the incomplete collection in March of registered computers of the administrative authorities has been exactly 2022 computers were upgraded to Windows 10. This corresponds to a share of 2.6 percent. To put it differently: To be a safety risk, must be changed in the next eight months, more than 75000 computer. This is not equivalent to 312 of the computers of the day, the week end is expecting.
FDP warns of Chaos
digital politicians such as the Liberal Schlömer see the administration in front of an unsolvable task. “It is not feasible to meet this deadline,” explains schloemer and is reminiscent of a similar scenario from the year 2015. At that time, the Berlin administration had to retool also tens of thousands of computers by the deadline of Windows XP to Windows 7 and failed. At the end of the former data protection Commissioner of the state of Berlin advised to take the computer from the mains supply, in order to give hackers no Chance. Even today, 26 computer in the administration with Windows XP are still running, but without connection to the national grid. Schlömer: “You have to assume that the Senate, after the failure of Windows-XP-transition to be a failure also in the case of the upcoming transition seamlessly.” For the second Time within a few years, a “Chaos of clear,” also because the necessary consequences of the past have not been learned.
Actually, the Senate is lagging behind its with the introduction of the so-called E-Government law set to claim the centralization of ICT management. Facilities at state and district level are, respectively, even for the conversion of the in some cases, several Thousands of computer is responsible, despite the establishment of an IT service center (ITDZ) in the year 2005. Their employees, in turn, are part of a Smentek in February, decorated Windows-10-special working group, the “not able, however, the decentralised responsibility for the Windows to replace 10-conversion self,” as Smentek put it now.
Smentek remains optimistic
in other words: The system-changeover is also continue to organize by the authorities themselves. Most of the work comes, of all places, the Senate of the interior: The list of upgraded computers in each of the authorities is the number for the house Smenteks with 19550. In March, the only one Not converted: yet.
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Nevertheless, Smentek, who had taken office in December 2016 is optimistic. On the question of whether to expect additional costs, should not be held the deadline is in January of 2020, she replied: “It is currently assumed that expenses for a Support extension, as all the authorities in the state of Berlin to a timely implementation to 30.11.2019 work.” In the recent meeting of the Committee for communication technology and data protection, they expressed confident that the period of time. The speaker of the Senate interior administration, added: “We are optimistic that we can do this until the end of November. We are working hard and feverishly.“
