Locked Shields

Locked Shields is an annual cyber defence exercise organised by NATO's Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Tallinn since 2010. The format is usually that a red team simulates a hostile attack while blue teams from the participating nations simulate their coordination and defence against this.{{r|Smeets}}

The performance of teams is assessed using a mix of automated and manual scoring.{{r|SCD}} In 2022, there were 24 teams with an average of 50 experts in each team.{{r|CCDCOE}} The team from Finland was declared as the 2022 winner for the excellence of their situation reporting and solid defence.{{r|HT}}

References

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{{citation |url=https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/world-int/23412-world-s-largest-cyber-defense-exercise-locked-shields-kicks-off-in-tallinn.html |title=World's largest cyber defense exercise Locked Shields kicks off in Tallinn |date=19 April 2023 |newspaper=Helsinki Times}}

{{citation |chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9811018 |chapter=The Role of Military Cyber Exercises: A Case Study of Locked Shields |publisher=IEEE |doi=10.23919/CyCon55549.2022.9811018 |date=4 July 2022 |title=2022 14th International Conference on Cyber Conflict: Keep Moving! (CyCon) |last1=Smeets |first1=Max |pages=9–25 |isbn=978-9916-9789-1-7 |s2cid=250292435 }}

{{citation |url=https://ccdcoe.org/exercises/locked-shields/ |title=Locked Shields |publisher=NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence |year=2023}}

{{citation |last1=Gheorghe |first1=A. V. |page=188 |title=Strategic Cyber Defense: A Multidisciplinary Perspective |last2=Tatar |first2=U. |last3=Gokce |first3=Y. |date=2017-07-20 |publisher=IOS Press |isbn=978-1-61499-771-9 |language=en}}

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