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Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) has met with approval for plans for active cyber defense. This involves attacks on the perpetrators of cyber attacks against Germany if their servers are located abroad.
Green parliamentary group vice-president Konstantin von Notz told the Handelsblatt that they would be open to the project if the minister was “finally serious about pursuing a coherent and constitutional IT security policy”. The CDU security politician Roderich Kiesewetter said that Dobrindt’s suggestions showed that the federal government was beginning to “counter the growing threat situations more dynamically and proactively”.
Manipulating or disrupting systems
When asked, a spokesman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior said that active cyber defense involves intervening measures that stop or mitigate an attack. “The information technology systems used for the attack or their data traffic are manipulated or disrupted using information technology means.”