International security experts focused on protecting national IT systems have competed and completed Locked Shields 2017, the annual live-fire cyber defense exercise organized by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence in Tallin, Estonia. The team from the Czech Republic won the scenario-based real-time exercise to maintain the networks and services of a military air base of a fictional country, with the defensive team also taking the special prize for the scenario inject. The Estonian team and the NATO Computer Incident Response Capability team took second and third place respectively. Components of the exercise included the technical defense of virtualized infrastructure, as well as handling and reporting incidents, solving forensic challenges, and responding to legal and strategic communications and scenario injects. “The winning team demonstrated that good tactics and stable performance in all categories can lead to best overall scores in the end”, said Aare Reintam, technical exercise director at NATO CCD COE. “ The experts of the Czech team performed also very well in the strategic track that was a new addition this year. The exercise was particularly challenging for all participants this year due to the increased scope and size of specialized systems involved. In the end all teams have gained a valuable training experience, which is the ultimate goal of this defensive exercise.” The NCIRC team took first in the exercise’s legal game, the German team topped the forensic challenges, while the team from the United Kingdom achieved premier scores in the strategic communication challenges.
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專注於保護國家信息技術系統的國際安全專家已經參加並完成了“鎖定盾牌”2017，這是北約組織的愛沙尼亞塔林合作網絡防禦中心的年度實況防火網絡演習。來自捷克共和國的團隊贏得了基於情景的實時演習，以維護虛構國家軍事空軍基地的網絡和服務，防禦隊伍也為場景注入特別獎。愛沙尼亞隊和北約計算機事件響應能力小組分別獲得了第二名和第三名。演習的組成部分包括虛擬化基礎設施的技術防範，處理和報告事件，解決法庭挑戰，以及對法律和戰略溝通以及場景注入的響應。北約CCD COE技術演習總監Aare Reintam說：“勝利團隊表明，所有類別的良好戰術和穩定的表現可以帶來最佳的綜合得分。 “捷克隊的專家也在今年新增的戰略軌道上表現也非常出色。由於所涉及的專門系統的範圍和規模不斷擴大，今年的演習對所有與會者來說都特別具有挑戰性。最終，所有的球隊都獲得了寶貴的培訓經驗，這是這次防守運動的最終目標。“NCIRC隊伍首先參加了這場演習的法律遊戲，德國隊伍取得了法醫挑戰，英國隊獲得了成功戰略溝通挑戰中的總理分數。