During this year’s “protek”, the leading conference for critical infrastructure protection, Matthias Schulze participated in a roundtable dubbed “Espionage & Zeitenwende.” Matthias stressed the growing relevance of cyber-espionage since the Snowden leaks of 2013. Many countries, including China, started to copy US espionage capabilities and ramped up cyber-espionage operations. In addition, since the Russian war against Ukraine, sabotage attempts in Europe have been rising, and Germany has been too slow to respond, including the legal and technical enabling of disabling reconnaissance drones. Lastly, Matthias stressed that many Germans are still in a peacetime mindset, which represents an obstacle to quickly adapting to the growing geopolitical tensions. The event took place 25-26.11 in Leipzig.