In 2016, Germany's government presented its third cybersecurity strategy, which aims to strengthen the national cyber defense architecture, cooperation between the state and industry, and individual users' agency. For many years, Germany has adopted a preventive and engineering approach to cybersecurity, emphasizing technological control of security threats in cyberspace over political, diplomatic, and military approaches. Accordingly, the technically oriented Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has played a leading role in Germany's national cybersecurity architecture. Only in 2016 did the military expand and reorganize its cyber defense capabilities. Moreover, cybersecurity is inextricably linked to data protection, which is particularly emphasized in Germany and has gained high public attention since Edward Snowden's revelations.