Polish team wins 6th place in world's largest NATO Cyber Defence Exercise
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The Polish team won 6th place in the 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 participated this year. The Polish team was represented by military & civilian experts from nine Polish centers, and were coordinated by the Defence Ministry's Narodowe Centrum Kryptologii.
Teams fought against more than 1,700 possible attacks and over 1,500 virtualised systems. Slovakia was the winner of this year's edition and was closely followed by the NCIRC team from NATO, and Finland. Germany came out on top of the forensic injects, while NCIRC did the best in providing legal analysis. The Czech Republic won the scenario challenges. Slovakia also scored the highest in the media challenges.
Poland was ranked 1st in Locked Shields 2013 and 2014, and took 3rd place in 2015.
Locked Shields 2016 is the biggest and most advanced international live-fire cyber defence exercise in the world. It focuses on training security experts, who protect national IT systems on a daily basis. The annual scenario-based real-time network defence exercise has been organized since 2010 by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence.
