National Cyberdefence Centre
The National Cyber Defence Centre ( NCAZ ) is a cooperation facility German security agencies at the federal level to repel electronic attacks on IT infrastructures of the Federal Republic of Germany and its economy.
Organization
The National Cyber Defence Centre has taken on the basis of a Cabinet decision of February 23, 2011 1 April 2011 his work. The official opening by Federal Interior Minister Hans -Peter Friedrich was held on 16 June 2011. The NCAZ is attached to the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and has its headquarters in Bonn. Speaker of the cyber - defense center is BSI president Michael Hange.
Core authorities of cyber defense center are the BSI, the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution ( BFV ) and the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance ( BBK). Associated authorities also cooperate with the Federal Criminal Police, the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), the German Federal Police, the Armed Forces and the Customs Criminal Office. Nuclear Authorities ( BSI Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and BBK) provide a total of ten full-time employees from (including BSI: 6 MA, BFV: 2 MA, BBK: 2 MA). The Associated authorities involved regularly and ad hoc basis through liaison officers. The supervisory bodies of the operators of Critical Infrastructures ( CIP ) should be involved, while respecting their statutory duties and powers as well.
The Cyber Defence Centre accordance with the federal government no independent authority, which is why a construction law is unnecessary as a legal basis. The basis of cooperation are " cooperation agreements " between the authorities involved. Here are all the staff at central defense and how to stay, involved taking into account the separation commandment between intelligence services and the police in their respective agencies while respecting the competence of each authority. The set up in 2004 Joint Counter-Terrorism Centre ( GTAZ ) was structurally sponsor for the National Cyber Defence Centre.
According to BMI, the Cyber Defence Centre will cooperate or not cooperate with EU institutions directly, but existing structures of the authorities involved should already be used to the EU and consistently expanded to transport the statements made in cyber defense center joint decisions. The BSI is cooperating with the European Agency for Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA ), whose managing director Udo Helmbrecht was previously President of the BSI and sits in the Board of BSI president Michael Hange.
Tasks
The central tasks of the Response Centre should - according to Minister Friedrich - be the prevention, information and early warning against so-called cyber attacks. Under a cyber attack is thereby in accordance with the "cyber- security strategy for Germany " an IT raid in cyber space understood who has against one or more other IT systems aligned and aim to break the IT security. As cyber attack types BSI apply, for example, identity theft, hacking, Trojan attacks, distributed denial of service attack and Internet - structure attacks ( such as BGP hijacking ). The need for the establishment of the National Cyber Response Centre was among other things due to the since 2005 increasing, targeted electronic attacks on authorities and commercial enterprises in Germany, which are attributed to the People's Republic of China (including GhostNet ), and with highly sophisticated attacks like Stuxnet, which the United States and Israel are attributed. According to BSI, among other information about perpetrators images as well as vulnerabilities in IT products are used in preparing recommendations for action exchanged and IT incidents, vulnerabilities and attack forms analyzed. While the NCAZ civilian inspection and is was also created only for civil purposes, is the equivalent, military organization for cyber affairs, the Strategic Reconnaissance Command.
The NCAZ advises the same time the newly created National Cyber Security specialist and reported on them.
Criticism
Critics, with only ten employees could the NCAZ these tasks do not meet, if it were a "sham " and " helpless war-cry " and would need at least ten times the employees.
Shortly after its official opening, the Cyber Defence Centre had to deal with a hacker attack the no-name crew on the radio beacon monitoring system Patras. The Spähprogramm PATRA evaluates position data from the transmit example, GPS tracking device of vehicles monitored felons and suspected terrorists by cellular phone, showing the movement of images of suspects on the PC, and is of state criminal offices, Federal Criminal Office (BKA ) and customs used. According to FOCUS the Cyber Defence Centre reported in the internal investigation report to the Department of the Interior " first Datensupergau German security authorities "; the hacker would have had on the central PATRA server of the Federal Police in Swisttal- Heimerzheim on which the improper server software XAMPP is installed, since the beginning of September spied 2010 confidential data and at least 42 Trojan installed on the hard drives, so the servers are switched off.