Off the Record with Prof. Norbert Pohlmann

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Name: Prof. Norbert Pohlmann
Position, Company: Director Institute for Internet Security and Chairman of the IT Security Association Germany TeleTrusT
Date of Birth: 20.03.1960
Hometown: Aachen, Germany
Favorite homemade dish: Sauerbraten

1. Right now: I am worried that the level of IT security and trustworthiness in digitization is not high enough.
2. My biggest motivation is: to make the world more secure.
3. At 7 o’clock in the morning: I am motivated to change the world.
4. The best decision in my career so far: is always staying in IT security, as an entrepreneur and as a professor.
5. At the best job I ever had I do free research as a professor.
6. In the shower I sing like a young god.
7. My first car was a VW Beetle.
8. I had the opportunity to shake hands with Bill Clinton.