Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Report: NATO Needs More Cyber Capabilities

Smith, Josh. "Report: NATO Needs More Cyber Capabilities." Nextgov, February 28, 2012.

From the article: "Government officials have warned that cyberattacks are rapidly becoming one of the greatest threats to the United States and its allies, but a new report says the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is still playing catch up.

"NATO's central missions of collective defense and cooperative security must be as effective in cyberspace as they are in the other domains of air, land, sea, and space," concluded a report released by the Atlantic Council on Monday.

While NATO enacted a new cyberdefense policy in June, the alliance now needs to focus on a core set of priorities to make cybersecurity efforts more effective, the report said."  Read more

See Also
Healey, Jason and Leendert van Bochoven, NATO's Cyber Capabilities: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, report prepared for the Atlantic Council's Smarter Alliance Initiative, February 27, 2012.