https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-29/nato-readies-for-cyber-threats-with-wargames-on-russian-doorstep
By Natalia Drozdiak and Ott Ummelas
Bloomberg
November 29, 2018
In a small Estonian town about 30 miles from the Russian border, NATO is
playing out fictional scenarios where allied networks and civilian systems
are under online assault.
A three-day annual exercise, dubbed Cyber Coalition, is pulling together
officials from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and its partners in
Estonia, which suffered what's widely believed to be the first
state-sponsored cyber assault on another country in 2007 amid a row with
Russia over relocating a Soviet-era monument.
Drawing inspiration from current events and active threats, the
simulations test officials' real-time responses to incidents, including
social media-fueled riots, network breaches resulting in poisoned water
supplies and derailed trains and the encryption of classified files.
"It's hard to imagine a conflict in the near future that wouldn't include
a cyber dimension," said Chelsey Slack, deputy head of NATO's
cyber-defense unit. "So we need to be ready to address that."
About 700 officials and experts have joined NATO's biggest cyber exercise,
which runs through Thursday and is designed to help protect elections in the
fictional developing nation of Tytan. Its neighbor, Stellaria, which is seeking
regional dominance, opposes NATO's presence and is working to undermine its
mission.
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