NATO's Largest Cyber Exercise Cyber Coalition Concludes in Estonia
NATO has concluded its largest annual cyber defence exercise, Cyber Coalition 2024, in Estonia, with nearly 200 participants and more than 1,300 cyber defenders from NATO Allies and partners. The exercise, which took place at the Estonian Cyber Range, brought together cyber defenders from 26 Allied countries, Finland, Georgia, Ireland, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine. In addition, there are participants from the private sector and universities.
During the exercise, Allied Command Transformation, in cooperation with Allied Command Operations and Allied Command Naples, conducted a pilot cyber awareness campaign with the support of industry.
Based on a realistic operational plan and using a platform demonstrator, the pilot correlated mission, threat and network information to create cyber situational awareness dashboards.
The results, based on feedback received from the operational community, are already informing the capability acquisition process, as well as processes that operational commands can adapt to support the assessment of the impact of cyber risks on the mission.
This allows Allied Command Transformation to begin developing a NATO Cyberspace Situational Awareness capability that will provide a critical cognitive advantage for the Alliance and Allies operating in cyberspace.
Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine has once again highlighted the need to understand the battlespace from a cyberspace perspective, to assess the impact of cyber events on military operations to inform commanders' decision-making.
NATO takes security threats in all domains - cyber, maritime, land, air and space - very seriously and is committed to defending its Allies in cyberspace.
The Alliance's cyber policy is defensive and in line with international commitments. NATO has made it clear that a serious cyberattack or the cumulative impact of sustained malicious cyber activity could lead to the invocation of Article 5, the collective defence clause of NATO's founding treaty.