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If you look at which institutions are responsible for cybersecurity in Germany, questions immediately arise. How do multiple entities at the federal, state, and local levels communicate with each other in an emergency? How do they coordinate and who is in charge? The non-profit Berlin organization Interface (until recently: New Responsibility Foundation) monitors the broader German cybersecurity landscape and has been publishing an annual report on it since 2018.
interactive site is new cyber security architectureWhich represents national and international institutions in a kind of periodic table: UN officials are shown in sky blue, EU institutions in cobalt blue and federal institutions in orange. The grey-brown area of ​​states shows: Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia have 14 positions each that relate to cybersecurity. After clicking on one of the boxes, the site reveals the functions of the institution shown and highlights relationships with other bodies. Stored information can be filtered and exported.
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