Being from Germany I never heard about government based security checks. IT-wise our government doesn't make a very competent impression. Do you have any background info on this?
I remember receiving an email from the BSI ("Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik"; engl. "Federal Office for Security of Information Technology") regarding a misconfigured NTP server that could be abused for NTP reflection attacks.
The functions of the BSI are explained in English here [1] based on the following law [2]. I guess initiatives such as informing about the NTP problem fall into what is listed under §3.2.
They pretty quickly send you emails once your email comes up in the whois of a domain that’s pointing to an IP in the allocation space of German companies.
The German government has contributed the base layer to OpenStreetMaps, and uses it for their official parcel/lot line maps. It is much better than the janky pile of crap Esri dumps on most counties in the USA.
The functions of the BSI are explained in English here [1] based on the following law [2]. I guess initiatives such as informing about the NTP problem fall into what is listed under §3.2.
[1] https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/TheBSI/Functions/functions_node.h...
[2] https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/BSI/BSI/bsig...