The German military’s new Cyber and Information Space Command (CIR) is up and running.Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen put the CIR into service April 5, according to the German embassy in Washington, D.C. The command is designed to manage the German armed forces’ information technology systems and defend them against a growing number of online attacks from other countries. “Foreign cyber attacks are no longer fiction but daily reality,” the embassy said in a statement. “They occur independent from…
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