Cyber ​​Operations Center

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Cyber ​​Operations Center
- ZCO -

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Lineup April 1, 2018
Country Flag of Germany.svg Germany
Armed forces armed forces
Organizational area Cyber ​​and information space
Strength 100 civil and military posts
Insinuation Strategic Reconnaissance Command Strategic Reconnaissance Command
Location Rheinbach , Tomburg barracks
Web presence ZCO
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commander Colonel Christian Pawlik

The Cyber ​​Operations Center ( ZCO ) is a department directly subordinate to the Strategic Reconnaissance Command in the military organizational area of cyber and information space of the Bundeswehr . It bundles the skills needed to prepare and carry out military cyber operations. The center is located in the Tomburg barracks in Rheinbach, North Rhine-Westphalia .

assignment

The ZCO's mandate is to plan, prepare and conduct offensive and defensive cyber operations in the context of national and alliance defense and to support the Bundeswehr's foreign missions from fixed facilities and with mobile systems. Through so-called "red teaming", in which an unauthorized intrusion is simulated, the center contributes to protecting its own IT systems in order to increase their resilience . The capabilities of the ZCO give the military and political leadership additional, less intervention-intensive options for reacting appropriately to crisis situations.

history

The ZCO emerged from the Computer Network Operations (CNO) group in the Strategic Reconnaissance Command. It was put into service with effect from April 1, 2018 as part of a solemn roll call by the commander of the Strategic Reconnaissance Command , Major General Axel Binder. The first commander of the ZCO is Colonel Christian Pawlik .

Its predecessor, the CNO group, carried out an officially unconfirmed cyber attack on the cellular network in Afghanistan in autumn 2015 , which enabled location data to be obtained from kidnappers of a German national.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZCO - About us. Retrieved May 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Sebastian Wanninger: On the Net. (PDF) In: current. Bundeswehr, April 3, 2017, pp. 2–3 , accessed on October 2, 2018 .
  3. ^ Fritz Kessel: Cyber ​​Operations Center officially put into service. Bundeswehr, April 19, 2018, accessed on October 2, 2018 .
  4. ^ Association of soldiers in the Bundeswehr e. V .: List of ZCO - from April 5, 2018. Accessed April 29, 2018 .
  5. ^ Matthias Gebauer: Kidnapped Germans - Bundeswehr hackers cracked the Afghan cellular network. In: http://www.spiegel.de/ . September 23, 2016, accessed October 16, 2019 .

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