NATO cyber-operations center will be leaning on its members for offensive hacks
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s cyber-operations command center in Belgium still has a ways to go before its offensive playbook is set in stone, a NATO cyber official involved in the matter told CyberScoop. The Cyberspace Operations Centre was established almost exactly one year ago, in Mons, Belgium to help member nations’ obtain real-time intelligence on and respond to cyberthreats from criminal or nation-state backed hackers. The alliance is still working on pooling member nations’ offensive cyber capabilities for those responses, Deputy Director of the Cyberspace Operations Centre Group Captain Neal Dewar told CyberScoop in an interview. The cyber operations center was created in part to fulfill the alliance’s 2016 decision that under NATO’s Article V, a cyberattack on one member nation may result in a group of members coming to its defense, just as if a physical attack had occurred. But because the alliance does not have its own […]
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