Centre of Excellence Tallinn, Estonia
Overview of Products
The Centre has taken a NATO-orientated, interdisciplinary approach to its focus areas. The work of the Centre is based on extensive information exchange, co-operation with NATO and NATO states as well as academia and the private sector. The following projects represent examples of the centre's activities in 2010 and 2011.
Cyber Defence Exercises
The Centre conducts technical cyber defence exercises which allows the participants to learn and test the skills needed to fend off a real attack. Next exercise, which is called Locked Shields, is planned for March 2012 and it will concentrate on the communication systems.
We are also contributing to the NATO Cyber Defence Exercise (Cyber Coalition) since 2009 by helping to plan, develop, and execute the exercise. Cyber Coalition is a procedural exercise with technical components. It is designed to give its participants a better understanding of NATO’s Cyber Defence capabilities and to identify areas for improvement within the NATO-wide Cyber Defence community.
Technical courses
The Centre holds technical courses twice each year to bring together and train computer and network security specialists from our Sponsoring Nations and partners. In general, students should have a good background in information technology either from studies, practical experiences or both.
In spring 2012 following courses will take place: Botnet Infiltration Training, IT Systems Attack and Defence, Cyber Defence Monitoring Solutions, Security Events Managing.
Conferences
Every June we organise a large multidisciplinary conference on current issues in cyber security. In 2012 the conference will focus on military and paramilitary activities in cyberspace. This topic will be explored from the political, legal and technical perspectives within two parallel tracks. For more information please visit www.cycon.org.
The 2011 conference brought together more than 380 specialists from governments, private sector and academia to discuss cyber conflict. Conference keynote speakers included Ralph Langner, who gave a thorough overview of the Stuxnet, and Charlie Miller, who gave his thoughts on why the bad guys are winning the InfoSec war.
Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts in Cyberspace
Following the initiative of the Centre and its partners from academia, a group of world-class international law and law of armed conflict experts regularly meet to bring clarity to the applicability of the law of armed conflict to cyber incidents. The group’s work is intended to lead to a restatement and manual on the international law applicable to cyber warfare, similar to the manuals on the law applicable to armed conflicts at sea (1994) and air and missile warfare (2010). The Manual on International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare, The Tallinn Manual, will be published in the second half of 2012.
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