NATO CRONOS

{{Short description|Computer networks for classified information}}

{{update|date=October 2012}}

Crisis Response Operations in NATO Operating Systems (CRONOS) is a system of interconnected computer networks used by NATO to transmit classified information. It provides NATO Secret level operations, with access to NATO intelligence applications and databases. As of 1999, a wide area network of NT computers used in NATO in Europe.{{cite web

| title = Microsoft Windows NT Server Supports Secure Communications for NATO Operations

| author = Microsoft Security Advisor

| website = Microsoft

| url = http://www.microsoft.com/security/resources/NATOCaseStudy.asp

| date = February 1999

| accessdate = 2007-07-24

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20000229230759/http://www.microsoft.com/security/resources/NATOCaseStudy.asp |archivedate = 2000-02-29}}

CRONOS provides e-mail, the Microsoft Office Suite, etc.{{cite web

| title = Lessons From Bosnia: The IFOR Experience

| author = Larry K. Wentz

| url = http://www.fas.org/irp/ops/smo/docs/ifor/bosch14.htm

| accessdate = 2007-01-01

}}

It provides informal messaging (e-mail) and information sharing within the NATO community.{{cite web

| title = Delivering e-Defence: Chapter 3 - Delivering operations - Our Missions and Responsibilities

| url = http://192.5.30.131/linked_files/deb2001_ch1-4.pdf

| accessdate = 2007-01-01

}}{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

There is no connectivity between CRONOS and any US network or with the coalition wide area network.{{cite web

| title = Newsletter for Information Assurance Technology Professionals

| url = http://iac.dtic.mil/iatac/download/Vol2_No4.pdf

| accessdate = 2007-01-01

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120206032631/http://iac.dtic.mil/iatac/download/Vol2_No4.pdf

| archive-date = 2012-02-06

| url-status = dead

}}