​Technology Watch Days

Innovation is key to the work of the C3 capability delivery In 2011 Chief Technology Officer launched a new quarterly Technology Watch programme, in which invited speakers from industry provide briefings to staff on emerging technologies in areas such as cloud computing, service orientated architectures, green IT and social computing. .  Internally, initiatives CTO has sort to encourage staff to pitch offer proposals for internal funding to investigate novel ideas which have included investigating multi-touch interfaces, applications of motion-tracking gaming interfaces and approaches for more agile IT acquisition.

Industry Participation

should ideally be at the level of Chief Architect, an individual who is able to explain the company’s capabilities in the relevant topic through a presentation lasting no more than 30 minutes. In addition, or alternatively, industry participation may be through a poster stand allowing more in-depth Q&A with NC3A staff. The events will be rounded off with a Panel discussion, and industry representatives who wish to join the Panel should indicate so in their response to this invitation to participate.

COMING NEXT!

Cyber Defence – 6 June 2012

The NATO C3 Agency is pleased to announce a Cyber Defence TechWatch Day to which industry are invited to present their Cyber Defence technologies and solutions.

The scope of the TechWatch Day is Cyber Defence, defined as the ability to safeguard the delivery and management of services in an operational CIS in response to potential and imminent, as well as actual, malicious actions that originate in cyberspace. Cyber defence is further broken down into the following capabilities:

• Detect malicious activities – to detect malicious activity by collecting sensor information, recognizing actions through the assessment of entities, understanding activities in both local and global context by assessing the situation, and providing visualization for human analysts to enhance detection.
• Prevent and mitigate attacks – to prevent and mitigate cyber-attacks through CIS component configuration changes and updates, cryptographic key and credential revocation, manipulation of traffic flows, deception, active defence, coordination of external responses, and through preservation of chain of evidence for the purpose of prosecution.
• Assess risk (dynamically) – to dynamically assess threat, values, and the CIS, and to dynamically compute the risk based on the assessments and relevant cyber defence information.
• Assess damage and attacks – to assess the damage incurred from attacks and to improve the understanding of threats by assessing malware and attacks.
• Visualize for situational awareness – to provide a visual representation of the state of cyber defence in a CIS to its users and operators for the purpose of improving their perception of relevant elements, comprehension of their meaning, and ability to project their evolution and how objectives will be affected.
• Decide in a timely manner – to identify options and impact of actions, coordinate decision makers to decide on actions to be taken, and disseminate the actions to be implemented in a timely manner as a response to a high risk or a cyber attack.
• Recover from attacks – to recover from attacks by restoring the system and information integrity, the CIS service availability, and the registration of any compromised information.
• Manage cyber defence information – to collect, share, review, and assure cyber defence information as well as collect and exploit historical data for the purpose of increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of cyber defence.

The Cyber Defence TechWatch Day is intended as a forum for the industry and NC3A to discuss current and forthcoming technological developments in the area of Cyber Defence, and exchange knowledge on industry best practices and specific NATO requirements.

Currently, NATO is heavily investing in Cyber Defence and on 8th of March 2012 a ceremony at the NATO C3 Agency  (NC3A) marked the award of the NATO Computer Incident Response Capability, Full Operational Capability contract.

It is essential for NC3A to keep abreast of the latest developments in Cyber Defence technologies.