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By Cam Sivesind
Tue | Dec 6, 2022 | 9:28 AM PST

More than 1,000 cybersecurity professionals took part in Cyber Coalition 2022 with the goal of testing and training cyber defenders in their ability to defend NATO and national networks.

NATO's largest annual cyber defense exercise took place Nov. 28 to Dec. 2 in Tallinn, Estonia, and remotely and involved cybersecurity pros from 26 NATO allies, Finland, Sweden, Georgia, Ireland, Japan, Switzerland, the European Union, and private industry and academia representatives.

The exercise was led by NATO's Allied Command Transformation.

"Cyber Coalition 2022 is a perfect venue for experimentation, driving cyberspace warfare and capability development," according to a NATO blog post. "It is used inter alia to test and validate concepts, capture requirements or explore Emerging and Disruptive Technologies, in support of military operators and commanders. Cyber Coalition 2022 experimentation campaign included experiments on the use of Artificial Intelligence to help counter cyber threats, on the standardization of cyber messages to foster information sharing, and on the exploitation of Cyber Threat Intelligence to inform Cyberspace Situational Awareness."

A Politico article broke down the exercise, noting:

"The world has never experienced an all-out cyberwar in which cyberattacks are used to the same devastating effect as physical strikes—such as shutting off critical services like power and water and preventing their restoration. The situation in Ukraine, however, is teetering on the brink.

The war in Ukraine has injected new urgency into questions about how NATO would respond to a cyberattack on a member state large enough to invoke Article 5, which labels an attack against any member state as an attack against all."

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