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The Cyber Defense Command of the Ministry of National Defense (MApN) participates, with a team of 21 specialists, between April 13-16, in the international cyber defense exercise Locked Shields 2021.
The online exercise, planned and organized by the NATO Center of Excellence for Cyber Defense in Tallinn, Estonia, is attended by teams from allied and partner states made up of professionals in the field, military staff and civilians, the Ministry of National Defense said on Monday.
This year, Romania is recording its first participation in Locked Shields with an interdepartmental team coordinated by the Cyber Defense Agency of the Cyber Defense Command. The team is composed of approximately 75 specialists who come, in addition to the Ministry of National Defense, from the other institutions of the defense system, public order and national security, from the National Center for Response to Cyber Security Incidents, as well as from private companies that operate
A virtual media brief is to take place Wednesday to accompany this year s high-level cyber security Exercise Locked Shields, organizers, the Tallinn-based NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence (CCDCOE), have announced.
Under a new format for 2021, this year s event will be the largest global live-fire cyber defense exercise worldwide, the CCDCOE says, and will aim to highlight the need for cyber defenders and strategic decision-makers to understand the numerous interdependencies between national IT systems of various countries.
The virtual briefing will take place Wednesday afternoon, while Exercise Locked Shields as a whole runs Tuesday to Friday.
The importance and relevance of Locked Shields can be gauged from the range of cyber threats which concern NATO allies and other states, while the exercise will test these countries abilities to protect vital services and critical infrastructure, the CCDCOE says.
Principles of Effective Cybersecurity Wargames
Expert cybersecurity practitioners are intensely aware of how complex the field may seem to less experienced colleagues. An effective cyber defense function, for example, requires colleagues with technical expertise as well as colleagues a genuine understanding of the threat landscape, adversarial tactics, cyber strategy, and essential related concepts including legal or reputational impact of a cyber incident.
Conveying these ideas through training and education too often relies on the transfer of facts without context, in which users often may not genuinely understand why certain cybersecurity behaviors are more useful than others. The use of serious games highlights a promising and engaging avenue to educate users with facts placed into an appropriate and relevant context.
Online Pandemic: When Countries Infect Each Other in Cyberspace
Dec. 21, 2020 at 12:07 pm
January 4, 2021
A decade ago, the world was caught off guard when news broke out that a computer virus had infected industrial sites in Iran. Named Stuxnet, the virus spread when a worker inserted an infected USB drive into his computer. One of the affected industrial sites was a nuclear plant in Iran.
Iran, according to security firm Symantec, bore the brunt of the virus with nearly 59% of the attacks directed at it. India, too, was impacted with 8.31% hits.
In October 2011, another worm called W32.Duqu was created from the same code base as Stuxnet that was primarily designed to sabotage industrial machinery. Duqu, on the other hand, was geared for information theft, specifically information related to industrial systems and other secrets.