The interior ministry's spokesman announced in December 2010 that the agency would be established; the German government reports that in the first 9 months of 2010, there were 1600 attacks on computer systems used by local and federal government in Germany.
内政部发言人宣布该机构将于2010年成立；德國政府報告，2010年前9個月，德國地方和聯邦政府使用的計算機系統受到1600次攻擊。