Polish team wins 6th place in NATO Cyber Defence Exercise
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Polish team won 6th place in NATO Cyber Defence Exercise Locked Shields 2016, which was held on April 18-22 in Tallinn, Estonia, Poland's Ministry of Defence informed.
Over 550 people and a total of 26 nations were participating this year. Polish team was represented by military & civilian experts from 9 Polish centers, and were coordinated by Defence Ministry's Narodowe Centrum Kryptologii.
Teams were fighting with more than 1700 possible attacks and over 1500 virtualised systems. Slovakia became the winner of this year's edition.
Poland was ranked 1st in 2013 and 2014, and took the 3rd place in 2015.
Locked Shields 2016 is the biggest and most advanced international live-fire cyber defence exercise in the world, which focuses on training the security experts who protect national IT systems on a daily basis.
