Security & Defense

NATO Cyber Defense: Moving Past the Summit

By Jason Healey, the New Atlanticist

From Jason Healey, the New Atlanticist:  Earlier this month, the Alliance’s defense ministers adopted a new Cyber Defense Policy and Action Plan, fulfilling and moving beyond the policy basics of the Strategic Concept from the 2010 Lisbon Summit.

NATO Cyber Defense: Moving Past the Summit

By Jason Healey

Earlier this month, the Alliance’s defense ministers adopted a new Cyber Defense Policy and Action Plan, fulfilling and moving beyond the policy basics of the Strategic Concept from the 2010 Lisbon Summit. Though the details are still classified, this blog will discuss the basics of the new policy which seems to root NATO in the things […]

Data breach from NATO-related website

By NATO

From NATO:  Police dealing with digital crimes have notified NATO of a probable data breach from a NATO-related website operated by an external company.

Budget cuts reducing NATO’s planned UAV purchase

By Bradley Peniston, Defense News

From Bradley Peniston, Defense News:  NATO is continuing to negotiate with Northrop Grumman on an estimated 1 billion euro ($1.4 billion) contract to provide the Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) Core Capability, a small fleet of radar-equipped Global Hawk unmanned aircraft.

New Commander for NATO’s Joint Warfare Center

By Allied Command Operations

From Allied Command Operations:  French Army Major General Jean Fred Berger assumed command of NATO’s Joint Warfare Centre today in a Change of Command ceremony, replacing German Army Lieutenant General Wolfgang Korte

Comparing Norms for National Conduct in Cyberspace

By Jason Healey

Over the past few years, many states, intergovernmental organizations, and think tanks have offered proposals for new norms and principles to govern activity in cyberspace. We’re nearing a bifurcation between east and west. There is significant overlap between the proposals of the United States and United Kingdom and significant agreement between them and those of the […]

Who Needs NATO? We All Do

By Ivo H. Daalder, the International Herald Tribune

From Ivo H. Daalder, the International Herald Tribune:  Today, more than 150,000 troops participate in six NATO operations on three continents.

U.S. and Europe making progress in cyber security

By John D. Banusiewicz, American Forces Press Service

From John D. Banusiewicz, American Forces Press Service:  In cyberspace, the more attack signatures you can see, and the more intrusions you can trace, the better your defense will be,” he [Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III] explained.

Germany establishes new Cyber Defense Center

By Sebastian Fischer and Ole Reissmann, Spiegel