Brussels proposes to better coordinate the national military efforts in cyberspace.
by Philippe Jacqué (Brussels, European office)
It was February 24, an hour before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Ka-Sat satellite, managed by the American company Viasat, was the victim of technical problems and deprived its customers, numerous in Ukraine and in the European Union, of its telecommunications services. On May 10, Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the European Union (EU), “firmly condemned the acts of cybermalveillance committed by the Russian Federation” vis-à-vis Ka-Sat. And, Thursday, November 10, the Commission presented its cyber -fans strategy in Brussels.
Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, Europe has accelerated the revision and deployment of its defense strategy – its “strategic compass” – adopted in March. It has deployed new instruments of cooperation between the twenty-seven, whether it is the ease of peace which allowed the transfer for more than 3 billion euros in weapons to kyiv or the establishment of a training mission for Ukrainian forces.
At the same time, she intends to equip herself with a real strategy in terms of cyberfense, the cyberspace having become the last disputed area that the armies are invest. In a few years, this sector has become a field of “hybrid” confrontation where attacks against civil infrastructure – telecom towers, hospitals, highways or businesses – and military.
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If defense questions are only member states, the cyber is in essence transnational. And cooperation between states is now necessary to respond to threats of cyberpirates. Within the Organization of the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO), the alliance responsible for defending Europe, in particular, cyberfense has been the subject of a full -fledged policy since 2008, a year after the Computer attack of many institutions in Estonia, which had put the country to stop. To its headquarters in Mons, the military alliance has a center dedicated to Cyber threats, which centralizes and permanently supports the allies, in the event of massive computer attacks.
In early November, NATO even organized one of the largest attacks on attacks on various military infrastructure in Europe. To answer them, hundreds of soldiers specializing in advanced technologies – from around forty countries – have sought to counter these assaults behind their computers and identify their attackers by looking for their traces on different computer servers.
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