Exercise Locked Shields 2018 was a “live-fire” cyber defense drill hosted by the NATO Cybersecurity Center of Excellence in Tallinn from 23-27 April 2018. The competition, which involved 800 participants from 25 nations, forced teams to defend their networks against sophisticated and aggressive cyber attacks; the NATO Communications and Information Agency emerged victorious, having mounted the most successful defense.
Footage includes shots from Locked Shields, and an interview with Chelsey Slack, Deputy Head of NATO’s Cyber Defense section, recorded in Geneva, Switzerland on 5 April 2018. Locked Shields footage courtesy of the NATO Cybersecurity Center of Excellence.
SHOTLIST
1. (00:00) VARIOUS SHOTS – Competitors at Exercise Locked Shields 2018
2. (00:18) VARIOUS SHOTS – Screens, monitors and information technology at Locked Shields
3. (00:40) SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) – CHELSEY SLACK, DEPUTY HEAD OF CYBER DEFENSE SECTION, NATO
“Well I would say that NATO, really since the early 2000s, has been tackling the issue of cyber defense, but really it was more from a technical approach, so the founding of our computer incident response capability. And in the years since, driven by geopolitical developments that we’ve seen, we’ve taken a more kind of political approach, if you like, and then starting to develop capabilities in setting up education training programs. And I think most importantly, in 2013, what’s very well known is that cyber defense was recognized as part of NATO’s core task of collective defense. Which is very important, because that’s the reason for being of NATO. The fact that cyber was recognized as this strategic threat has since then informed our thinking.”
4. (01:26) SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) – CHELSEY SLACK, DEPUTY HEAD OF CYBER DEFENSE SECTION, NATO
“And so NATO’s fundamental mandate in cyber defense is to protect its own networks, the missions and operation that we have, in addition to helping each individual ally at the national level enhance their cyber resilience.”
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