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The Cyber Defense Center in Tallinn is one of 10 accredited [[Allied Command Transformation#NATO Centres of Excellence|Centres of Excellence]] (COEs), for training on technically sophisticated aspects of NATO operations. It is being funded nationally and multi-nationally as these centers are closely linked with [[Allied Command Transformation]] and promote the alliance-approved transformation goals. |
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Revision as of 13:28, 28 June 2009
| Küberkaitse Kompetentsikeskus Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence  | |
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| Part of Estonian Defence Forces SIVAK NATO Electronic Warfare | |
| Located in Tallinn, Estonia | |
| Type | electronic warfare installation |
| Site information | |
| Controlled by | Estonian Defence Forces |
| Site history | |
| Built | 2008 |
| Built by | Estonia |
CCDCOE, officially the Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence ([K5 or Küberkaitse Kompetentsikeskus] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) is a NATO electronic warfare installation, located in Tallinn, Estonia.
Overview
The Cyber Defense Center in Tallinn is one of 10 accredited Centres of Excellence (COEs), for training on technically sophisticated aspects of NATO operations. It is being funded nationally and multi-nationally as these centers are closely linked with Allied Command Transformation and promote the alliance-approved transformation goals.
The main agenda of the facility is to:
- improve cyber defence interoperability within the NATO Network Enabled Capability (NNEC) environment,
- design the doctrine and concept development and their validation,
- enhance INFOSEC and cyber defence education, awareness, and training,
- provide cyber defence support for experimentation (including on-site) for experimentation,
- analying the legal aspects of cyber defence.
The unit has also other responsibilities which include the:
- contribution to development of Cyber Defense Center practices and standards with NATO, PfP, NATO candidates and non-NATO nations,
- contribution to development of NATO security policies related to cyber defence its definition of scope and responsibility of military in cyber defence,
- conduction of the cyber defence focused training, awareness campaigns, workshops, and courses,
- developing and conducting cyber defence focused exercises and its ability to provide CD exercise support,
- providing cyber defence SMEs to NATO and its ability in cyber defence testing and validating.
Current status
The Cyber Defence Centre conducts research and training on cyber warfare and includes a staff of 30 persons.[1] Estonia has also shown interest in Iceland to join the Cyber Defence Centre.[2] There are currently 8 countries involved within the center[3]:
History
In 2003, prior to the country’s official accession to NATO, Estonia proposed the creation of a “cyber excellence center”. The 2006 Riga summit listed possible cyber attacks among the asymmetric threats to the common security and acknowledged the need for programs to protect information systems over the long term. The cyber attacks on Estonia in 2007 highlighted for the first time the potential vulnerability of any NATO countries, their institutions and societies, and even NATO itself to disruption or penetration of their information and communications systems.
Estonia’s proposals for a NATO cyber excellence center received strong support from the alliance’s Secretary-General “Jaap” de Hoop Scheffer. NATO completed an assessment of the situation, partly in light of Estonia’s experience, in October 2007, and approved a NATO policy on cyber defense in January 2008. NATO’s summit communiqué in Bucharest in April announced NATO’s readiness to “provide a capability to assist allied nations, upon request, to counter a cyber attack”.
The need for a cyber-defence centre to be opened today is compelling. It will help NATO defy and successfully counter the threats in this area.[4]
- —General James Mattis in Brussels May 14 2008.