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- Provides the first comprehensive analysis of German cyber security policy and national technological capabilities
- Helps readers in industry, government and academics to prepare for an involvement in cyber security cooperation
- Examines security concepts in practice for automated industry/"industry4.0"
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Cybersecurity (BRIEFSCYBER)
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In 2016, Germany's government presented its third cybersecurity strategy, which aims to strengthen the national cyber defence architecture, cooperation between the state and industry, and individual users’ agency. For many years, Germany has followed/adopted a preventive and engineering approach to cybersecurity, which emphasizes technological control of security threats in cyberspace over political, diplomatic and military approaches. Accordingly, the technically oriented Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has played a leading role in Germany’s national cybersecurity architecture. Only in 2016 did the military expand and reorganize its cyber defence capabilities. Moreover, cybersecurity is inextricably linked to data protection, which is particularly emphasised in Germany and has gained high public attention since Edward Snowden’s revelations.
On the basis of official documents and their insights from many years of experience in cybersecurity policy, the two authorsdescribe cyber security in Germany in the light of these German peculiarities. They explain the public perception of cybersecurity, its strong link with data protection in Germany, the evolution of Germany's cybersecurity strategies, and the current organisation of cybersecurity across the government and industry. The Brief takes stock of past developments and works out the present and future gaps and priorities in Germany’s cybersecurity policy and strategy, which will be decisive for Germany’s political role in Europe and beyond. This includes the cybersecurity priorities formulated by the current German government which took office in the spring of 2018.Authors and Affiliations
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Digital Society Institute, European School of Management and Technology, Berlin, Germany
Martin Schallbruch, Isabel Skierka
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cybersecurity in Germany
Authors: Martin Schallbruch, Isabel Skierka
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Cybersecurity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90014-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90013-1Published: 07 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90014-8Published: 20 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2193-973X
Series E-ISSN: 2193-9748
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 66
Topics: Systems and Data Security, Computers and Society, Public Policy