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§ 38 BSIG: the personal exposure of the Geschäftsleitung, and what it means for a foreign parent's German GmbH
Since 6 December 2025 § 38 BSIG has required the German managing body to implement the risk-management measures and supervise them, not to approve them.
In practice
Contain the incident first, prove what happened second — inside the reporting window.
Reporting clocks run in hours, and management liability turns on whether controls were implemented and supervised, not merely approved. Barzel isolates credentials, cuts an agent off in one action and keeps signed receipts of what ran — the material a notification and a board report are written from.
In forceThe new BSIG (NIS-2) has applied since 6 December 2025
BarzelVault
The AI action firewall: decide what an agent may do before it does it.
- Approval thresholds and policy checks enforced before execution; human approvals that expire and escalate.
- Cryptographically signed audit receipts: trigger, inputs, policy version, approver, outcome.
- Credential isolation, spend and action limits, and an emergency kill switch.
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Barzel Central Gateway
The AI governance control plane: one inventory and one policy layer across every MCP server and agent.
- Registers and synchronises every tool; enforces identity, policy, region, cost and health per tool.
- Identity mapping through OIDC, Entra ID, Okta, SAML and SPIFFE, with credential brokerage.
- Trace and SIEM export (W3C trace context, OTLP) for the security team and the regulator.
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