What sets cookies on DKCISSP, and the choice EEA/UK/Swiss visitors get before advertising cookies load.

Advertising cookies (Google AdSense)

DKCISSP runs Google AdSense (Auto ads). Google and its advertising partners may set cookies or similar technologies in your browser to serve ads, measure ad performance, and — where you have consented or personalization is otherwise permitted — personalize ads based on your activity on this and other sites.

If you are in the EEA, UK or Switzerland, a consent-management tool asks for your choice before personalized-advertising cookies are set, in line with Google's EU User Consent Policy. You can read more about Google's advertising cookies at https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads and manage your Google ad personalization at https://adssettings.google.com.

Declining personalized advertising does not block you from reading DKCISSP — non-personalized ads may still be shown, and the publication otherwise remains fully usable.

My Environment and The Delta (browser local storage, not cookies)

My Environment stores the technology names you choose, plus optional version and exposure context, in browser local storage so the Environment Lens and Defender Action Pack can compare DKCISSP articles with that profile in your browser. The personalized match feed can also store a small local baseline of matched article identifiers and evidence fingerprints so later visits can identify new matches or updated intelligence. The Delta stores a last-viewed intelligence snapshot for an article so a later visit can identify material changes.

This browser-local storage is not transmitted to DKCISSP by these features, is not used as an advertising identifier, and is not used for product promotion. You can remove it by clearing My Environment, clearing site data in your browser, or using browser controls that remove local storage.

My Environment currently accepts manual selections and optional manual version/exposure context only. It does not accept environment inventory files, scanner exports, CMDB files or other organization datasets.

Strictly necessary technology

Hosting, networking or security infrastructure may use strictly necessary technical storage or similar mechanisms where required to transmit pages, balance traffic, protect the service, prevent abuse or maintain security. These mechanisms are not used by DKCISSP for advertising or reader profiling.

Your choices

EEA/UK/Swiss visitors can change their advertising-consent choice at any time through the consent-management tool shown on the site. All visitors can manage Google's ad personalization directly at https://adssettings.google.com, and can control cookies generally through their browser settings. Blocking or clearing cookies may affect ad display but will not block you from reading DKCISSP's editorial content.

External websites

Links in Sources & References may take readers to external websites. Those websites can use their own cookies or similar technologies under their own policies. DKCISSP does not control cookies set after a reader leaves our site.

Changes to this policy

This policy should be reviewed whenever DKCISSP adds analytics, new advertising arrangements, account features, embedded third-party services, server-side personalization, file import, connectors or any other technology that stores or accesses additional information on a reader's device or transmits organization data.