Holger Mühlbauer (; born 1964) is a German jurist and writer, focused on

technical standards A technical standard is an established norm or requirement for a repeatable technical task which is applied to a common and repeated use of rules, conditions, guidelines or characteristics for products or related processes and production methods, ...

and

information security Information security is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks. It is part of information risk management. It typically involves preventing or reducing the probability of unauthorized or inappropriate access to data ...

, working for the German

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as managing director of a committee, for the Austrian Standards, the

European Committee for Standardization The European Committee for Standardization (CEN, ) is a public standards organization whose mission is to foster the economy of the European Single Market and the wider European continent in global trading, the welfare of European citizens an ...

(CEN) and the

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(ISO). He is managing director of

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, and author of specialist books.

Career

Mühlbauer first trained to be a

metalworker Metalworking is the process of shaping and reshaping metals in order to create useful objects, parts, assemblies, and large scale structures. As a term, it covers a wide and diverse range of processes, skills, and tools for producing objects on e ...

and worked in the profession.

Berlin

After military service Mühlbauer studied law, and worked as a scientific assistant at the

TU Berlin Tu or TU may refer to: Language * Tu language * Tu (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign * ''tu'' or ''tú'' the 2nd-person singular subject pronoun in many languages; see personal pronoun * T–V distinction (from the Latin pronouns ''tu'' and ''vos'') ...

for the faculty of computer science (''Informatik''), where he focused on

data security Data security or data protection means protecting digital data, such as those in a database, from destructive forces and from the unwanted actions of unauthorized users, such as a cyberattack or a data breach. Technologies Disk encryption ...

and information law (''Informationsrecht''). He wrote his

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in 1994 about ''Einwohnermeldewesen'' (Residents' registration). He then worked for the in Berlin. From 1996 he worked for the

Deutsches Institut für Normung ' (DIN; in English language, English, the German Institute for Standardisation) is a Germany, German non-profit organization and acting as national organization for standardization. DIN is the German International Organization for Standardizat ...

(DIN), the German institute for

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s in Berlin, as managing director for the standards committee (''Normenausschuss'') for usability and services.

Vienna

In 2000, Mühlbauer moved to the Austrian equivalent, Austrian Standards, in Vienna. He held the position of committee Secretary in organisations such as the

(CEN) and the

International Standards Organisation The International Organization for Standardization (ISO ; ; ) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries. Mem ...

(ISO). For ISO and CEN, he served as Secretary of service-related committees, including Tourism Services, Personal Financial Planning, Psychological Assessment, Brand Valuation, Learning Services for Non-Formal Education and Training, Print Media Surveys, and Rating Services. He initiated the ISO project "Brand valuation". He serves as an auditor for the ISO 20252 standard, (Requirements on services of market, opinion and social research), and for ISO 10668, (Brand valuation), among others.

Return to Berlin

Since 2009, Mühlbauer is the managing director of the IT security association

, which has established reliable conditions for trustworthy application of information and communication technologies. In 2020, he contributed to ''

Wirtschaftswoche ''Wirtschaftswoche'' is a German weekly business news magazine published in Germany. ''Wirtschaft'' means “economy” (including business), and ''Woche'' is “week”. History and profile For many years, ''Wirtschaftswoche'' was published ...

''s ''Economy 4.0 – Die Digitalisierung der Wirtschaft'' (the digitalisation of science). Mühlbauer coordinates the annual technology presentations "IT Security made in Germany" at the RSA Conference San Francisco and at GISEC Dubai.

Publications

Mühlbauer authored specialist books, including practical dictionaries (''Praxiswörterbuch''). They were published by , including: * 2020 ''Praxiswörterbuch / Brand valuation'' (English) * 2019 ''Konferenz-Englisch / Stichwörter und Wendungen für englischsprachige Sitzungen'' (German/English) * 2019 ''Praxiswörterbuch / ISO-Terminologie für Markt-, Meinungs- und Sozialforschung'' (English/German) * 2018 ''Made in Germany - als Marke und Kennzeichnung / Möglichkeiten und Einschränkungen'' * 2015 ''Kurze Einführung in die Normung / Das Wesentliche zu DIN, CEN und ISO''

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mühlbauer, Holger 1964 births Living people Jurists from Berlin Chief executives of computer security organizations German technology chief executives