EU and US Carry Out First Joint Cyber Security Exercise

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EU and US Carry Out First Joint Cyber Security Exercise

By CircleID Reporter
November 03, 2011, 5:37 pm PDT Views: 4,842 Add Comment

The first joint cyber security exercise between the EU and US is being held today in Brussels, with the support of the EU’s cyber security Agency ENISA and the US Department of Homeland Security. The day-long table-top exercise, named “Cyber Atlantic 2011”, is using simulated cyber-crisis scenarios to explore how the EU and US would engage each other and cooperate in the event of cyber-attacks on their critical information infrastructures.

More than 20 EU Member States are involved in the exercise, 16 of them actively playing, with the European Commission providing high-level direction. Cyber Atlantic 2011 is part of an EU-US commitment to cyber security which was made at the EU-US summit in Lisbon on 20 November 2010.

The exercise draws on lessons learned in the first pan-European cyber security “stress test” exercise, Cyber Europe 2010, which was facilitated last year by ENISA.

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