Automatically and dynamically ascertaining by means of autoconfiguration whether used or activated and usable cipher suites and/or key lengths are sufficiently strong for current cryptographic protection of the control communication and/or other service access by virtue of 1) “cipher-suite”-based/-specific information available in the network/system being called up to ascertain reference cipher suites and/or 2) block chain information available in the network/system, containing data records referred to as “proof of work” for solving complex computation tasks, being called up or ascertained, with the ascertainment of block chain difficulty parameters as key length estimation parameters to ascertain appropriate reference key lengths, in particular reference minimum key lengths required for cryptoalgorithms, and 3) the ascertained reference cipher suites and/or the reference key lengths ascertained by the key length estimation parameters being compared with the used or activated and usable cipher suites and/or key lengths.