NATO is conducting Cyber Coalition 2010 this week ahead of the summit in Lisbon, a cyber defence exercise to test cyber incident response, inter-agency collaboration, and the strategic decision making processes of NATO and its member states, the alliance said in a statement.
The exercise scenario includes multiple simultaneous cyber attacks targeting NATO and NATO member states.
The Nov. 16-18 Cyber Coalition 2010 is a procedural cyber defense exercise that includes a number of technical elements.
National cyber defence decision-making authorities, the NATO Cyber Defence Management Board and computer incident response teams from NATO and NATO nations will participate in the exercise.
Cyber Coalition 2010 is the third NATO cyber defence exercise. The first exercise in November 2008 was limited to NATO bodies. As of 2009, all NATO nations have been invited to participate, the alliance statement said.
The exercise is managed by the Cyber Coalition 2010 core planning team at SHAPE near Mons, Belgium. All other participants will carry out the exercise from the country and location where they regularly operate.
The NATO Headquarters International Military Staff and International Staff in Brussels, the NATO Computer Incident Response Capability Technical Centre (NCSA NCIRC TC) in Mons, the NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency in Brussels and the Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Tallinn, Estonia, are jointly responsible for the preparation and execution of the exercise.