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Bavaria's Secretary of State for Finance and Homeland Security Martin Schöffel and Bavaria's Secretary of State for the Interior Sandro Kirchner today (14 October) welcomed representatives of the federal and state governments of the state working group on cyber security at the State Office for Information Security (LSI) in Nuremberg.
"IT security affects us all - the state, companies and citizens are confronted with increasingly complex cyber threats. Bavaria's State Office for Security is making a key contribution to a secure cyberspace, hand in hand with its powerful Bavarian partner authorities. However, the diverse attack attempts do not stop at state borders! For a strong defense, not only the increasing development of skills in the federal states, but also close federal networking is essential! As part of the state cyber security working group, we have therefore been working together in a spirit of trust for years and countering cyber threats with combined expertise!" emphasizes Bavaria's Finance and Home Secretary Martin Schöffel.
Martin Rößler, State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry of the Interior, for Security and Homeland Security and Chairman of the State Working Group on Cyber ??Security (LAG) of the Conference of Interior Ministers, emphasizes: “In view of the networking in the digital space, cyber security is a task on which all levels of government must work closely together. Since it can be assumed that the threat situation will continue to worsen, cooperation and the achievement of synergies are becoming increasingly important. Today, at our conference in the LSI, we states discussed relevant topics and made important decisions in the interests of cyber security. Clear responsibilities, fixed contacts and modern structures, such as those we have created in Hesse with the CyberCompetenceCenter, for example, are essential in the area of ??cyber security. Under the chairmanship of Hesse, the positions of the states are coordinated and bundled in the State Working Group on Cyber ??Security of the Conference of Interior Ministers in order to introduce them, for example, in legislative procedures. In addition, the states in the LAG Cyber ??Security are developing concepts on overarching topics, including cooperation between the federal government and the states in the event of incidents related to critical infrastructures. With their ideas, concepts, skills and resources, the states are making an important contribution to strengthening cybersecurity in Germany.”
"Ensuring a high level of security constantly presents us all with new challenges - especially in cyberspace," says Bavaria's Secretary of State for the Interior Sandro Kirchner. "In order to effectively address these challenges, we need efficient structures and intelligent networking. Bavaria is well positioned here with its efficient cybersecurity architecture." Against the backdrop of increasingly professional perpetrators operating across state borders, it is now more important than ever to quickly identify new threats and combat them with precision. "Cybersecurity can only succeed together! We therefore also need a broad network of strong partners in order to effectively address the ever-growing dangers in cyberspace. Intensifying cooperation between the states and with the federal government in the field of cybersecurity is therefore one of the core topics of the state working group on cybersecurity."
The State Working Group on Cyber ??Security is a working group of the Conference of Interior Ministers under the permanent chairmanship of Hesse. It deals comprehensively with all topics relating to IT security. In addition to the state secretaries of the interior ministries, the working group is also made up of representatives of the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Office for Information Security, as well as representatives of other state ministries with relevant expertise.
As part of today's conference in Nuremberg, the state working group learned about the tasks and activities of the Bavarian LSI.
With the establishment of the LSI in 2017, the Free State of Bavaria was the first federal state to create an independent specialist authority for IT security. Around 150 security experts currently work at the LSI's three locations in Nuremberg, Würzburg and Bad Neustadt ad Saale. With their comprehensive expertise, they ensure the protection of the Bavarian authority network in particular. In addition, the LSI supports Bavarian municipalities and operators of critical infrastructures (such as hospitals and water suppliers) as a specialized and individual consultant on all questions relating to IT security and in specific IT security incidents.
