Similar Agencies
The BSI has a similar role as the
- Computer Security Division (CSD) of Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) of NIST (United States)
- Security and Privacy (SP) Branch of the former CCTA (United Kingdom)
- The National Institute of Communication Technologies INTECO (Spain)
Unlike those organizations, BSI is focused on IT-security rather than being part of an organisation with a more general IT-standards remit. BSI is separate from Germany's signals intelligence, which is part of the military and the foreign intelligence service (BND). However, it is unknown whether there is still some form of informal cooperation between the BSI and the BND.
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