{"id":25346,"date":"2018-02-05T18:24:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T18:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2018\/02\/05\/natos-crossed-swords-exercise-preps-cyber-warriors\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:18:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:18:02","slug":"natos-crossed-swords-exercise-preps-cyber-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/home\/2018\/02\/05\/natos-crossed-swords-exercise-preps-cyber-warriors\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO\u2019s Crossed Swords exercise preps cyber warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2015 NATO has concluded an exercise meant to prepare the alliance\u2019s cyber warriors for future cyber-kinetic operations has concluded. Crossed Swords 18 hosted 80 participants from 15 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NATO\u2019s Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence, or CCDCOE, coordinated the exercise in Latvia, which focused on \u201cenhancing further cooperation and information sharing between civilian and military spheres, joining together Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) providers and military units.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The training objectives for the exercise included attributing cyberattacks that target information systems, launching stealthy cyber counterattacks, and coordinating tactics between cyber and kinetic units. <\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/cyber\/2018\/02\/02\/yes-a-cyberattack-could-spur-the-president-to-launch-a-nuclear-attack\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/VWO6QZHYZ5CLHARS62RBY7CELA.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Yes, a cyberattack could spur the president to launch a nuclear attack<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Nuclear Posture Review, officially revealed Friday, does not change when a president might order a nuclear strike in response to a non-nuclear attack. But it does provide more hypotheticals about the circumstances that might force the president\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alliance members, such as Norway, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthdomain.com\/international\/2018\/01\/23\/norway-worries-about-cyber-threats-during-military-exercises\/\">which recently partnered with state telecom provider Telenor Norway to develop advanced cyber defenses<\/a>, are concerned their networks will be vulnerable to increasingly dynamic cyberthreats unless relationships between CII providers and the international security apparatus is deepened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is evident that in order to defend ourselves better in cyber space, we need to know how attacks are carried out,\u201d said Aare Reintam, the project manager of technical exercises at CCDCOE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To that effect, Crossed Swords partnered with CII 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