NATO plans cyber defence task force

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NATO has revealed plans for a cyber task force to help detect and deal with attacks.

NATO plans cyber defence task force

The Cyber Red Team was announced by Luc Dandurand, an expert with NATO's C3 Agency, who told AFP it would “provide a significant contribution to the improvement of NATO’s cyber defence capability.”

"The need for such a team is obvious," Dandurand said, highlighting some legal issues that need to be dealt with before the Cyber Red Team can become a reality.

"The two main issues identified at this point are the need to legitimise the Cyber Red Team activities that could otherwise be construed as the malicious or unauthorised use of computer systems, and the potential for invasion of privacy resulting from Cyber Red Team activities.”

NATO has adopted a new policy, designed to give “a coordinated approach to cyber defence across the Alliance.”

The policy will see all NATO cyber operations brought under centralised protection, whilst cyber defence has been integrated into the body’s Defence Planning Process.

"Cyber-attacks against Estonia in the Spring of 2007, during Russia's operation in Georgia in 2008, and the many more cyber attacks we have seen worldwide since then have shown us there is a new kind of war that can cause a lot of damage," Major General Jonathan Shaw, a British defence ministry official, told delegates at NATO's third annual cyber defence conference.

"We need a response system and we need to learn to respond fast. In the cyber world you have to do lot of homework before the attack in order to be effective.”

This article originally appeared at itpro.co.uk

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