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[quote=BITTERSWEET,359286]These questions have been the subject of heated debate among military leaders and diplomats since the Estonia incident. At last year's NATO summit in Bucharest, the heads of state agreed to a joint cyber defense concept and strengthened the security precautions for their own networks, for which a NATO agency in the Belgian city of Mons is responsible. In addition, the alliance established a "Center of Excellence on Cyber Defense," in the Estonian capital Tallinn. The new institute has produced an analysis of the attacks on Georgia, in which it points to "attacks in a gray zone." According to the report, "the current question of whether cyber attacks should be treated as armed attacks remains unresolved." It will "take time to achieve international consensus on the legal issues of cyber defense," the report concludes.

Germany, at any rate, is apparently unwilling to wait that long. The draft legislation prepared by the interior ministry, now headed to the Bundestag for debate, proposes upgrading the BSI into something of a civilian cyber defense agency. In the future, it would employ automated technology to monitor the flows of data at the Federal Chancellery and ministries, so that abnormalities can be detected and corrective steps taken more quickly. In addition, the small Bonn agency would no longer simply issue recommendations to reluctant government institutions, but would have the authority to issue concrete "guidelines," such as to reduce the number of unmonitored points of access to the Internet.

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