eco Director of Policy and Law, Oliver Süme, on the changes to the organizational structure of the Federal Ministry for the Interior, in the topic area Cyber Security
“eco welcomes the fact that the Federal Minister for the Interior wants to dedicate himself more strongly to the topic cyber security in the future, and that this focus is reflected in the organization of his ministry. In the center of the Federal Government’s plans for the increase in cyber security should be the state’s own obligation to protect and its own responsibility for the maintenance of IT security, in order to strengthen trust in the Internet. In particular, the surveillance scandal surrounding the revelations about the activities of the NSA demonstrates that IT Security means not only national, but also international responsibility, and that the Internet industry, despite all the efforts to create a high level of IT security, have their limits set by politics. IT security requires, rather, international regulations and standards and cross-border protection measures. Here, the Federal Government must engage in intensive dialog with the European partners and the USA.”
Position Paper IT Security in the 18th Session of the German Federal Government