RIA will be coordinating the game of the joint team of Estonia and the US. ‘While the best achievement of the Estonian team so far has been a high second place, we are in it to win it this time,’ said Raimo Peterson, head of the Cyber Security Centre and one of the organisers of the exercise.
The world’s largest cyber exercise of its kind will allow participants to defend real computer systems from real-time attacks and to act out how to make tactical as well as strategic decisions in a time-critical situation.
‘24 teams from all corners of the globe must keep critical infrastructure and IT systems running. Our 500 organisers have spent seven months preparing and fine-tuning the exercise, and have created more than 5,500 virtual systems for it,’ said Mart Noorma, Director of the NATO CCDCOE, and added that alongside the technical game, the strategy game and collaboration play an equally important role. ‘Technical specialists cannot solve a cyber crisis alone. Usually, decision-makers and experts from different governmental bodies and walks of life are those who try to repel the attacks. This is why, in addition to cyber defence, we focus on strategy games, legal issues, and crisis communication at Locked Shields,’ said Noorma.
The main or most intense days of the exercise are 19 and 20 April. The winners will be announced on Friday, 21 April.
This year, teams consisting of representatives of the NATO CCDCOE member nations or key partners from a total of 38 different countries, including Estonia, are participating in the exercise, which has been organised since 2010.
More information about the Estonian team from the exercise:
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