Successful cyber attacks are also increasing in the area of public administration and operators of critical infrastructures (KRITIS). Since January 2022, a total of 56 attacks on these facilities and on research and educational institutions in Germany have become public knowledge. In the same period of the previous year, there were only 24 successful attacks.
“Unfortunately, the discussion about attacks on authorities and KRITIS operators too often focuses on the attackers and their technical skills. Questions, such as transparent risk management or the planning of measures to deal with an attack, are clearly neglected,” says Jonas Rahe, director of the public sector and responsible for IT security on the management board at Cisco Germany. “Only very few organizations have contingency plans.
Few contingency plans available
Exercises are performed extremely rarely. And most public sector organizations rely on the same external resources for resource planning in a crisis situation. There is therefore a great danger that Germany's IT resources will be overloaded in the event of a broad attack on public and critical institutions. What we need is a transparent prevention and management concept that involves all actors from politics, internal and external security and, above all, civil IT.”
The number of successful attacks is based on evaluations by the analysis company KonBriefing, which compiles publicly documented attacks. In the comparable period of the previous year (January to September 2021), only 24 similar attacks were known. From May to July 2022 in particular, the number of successful attacks on authorities and KRITIS operators increased. The information is based on self-reports by the organizations concerned and on media reports.
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