China News Agency, Brussels, November 16 (Reporter De Yongjian) NATO has held its annual "Cyber Coalition" exercise (Cyber Coalition) since the 16th to exercise NATO’s ability to maintain cyberspace security and test NATO’s cyber defense capabilities. Decision process and steps.
According to the announcement issued by NATO on the same day, the "Network Alliance" exercise will last for a week, with nearly 1,000 officials and experts from NATO member states, partner countries (Finland, Ireland, Sweden and Switzerland) and the European Union participating in the exercise. A record high.
The announcement stated that due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, this year's exercise was conducted online for the first time. Under the coordination of the Estonian Cyber Security Training Center, the exercise personnel will use common cyber threats as templates to test their real-time response capabilities to cyber attacks, such as Destroying confidential networks, destroying communication systems of critical infrastructure, stealing secrets using smartphone applications, etc.
As a NATO mechanism network exercise, the "Network Alliance" exercise has been held since 2008. It has the characteristics of testing and actual combat, and it complements the "Locked Shields" exercise which has the characteristics of training and confrontation. Also known as NATO’s two major cyber exercises.
At present, cyberspace, together with land, sea, air, and space, has become the NATO operational domain. Cyber attacks can also trigger NATO’s “collective defense”. NATO has also established a cyberspace operations center.
The announcement on the 16th stated that in order to maintain the “top priority” of cyberspace security, NATO has deployed a “cyber defense rapid response team” on standby 24/7, ready to assist NATO member states and allies in maintaining cyberspace security at any time.
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