NATO's New Cyber Operations Centre

摘要

NATO's new Cyberspace Operations Centre is up and running, after the Alliance announced the initial stand up of the Cyberspace Operations Centre (CyOC) in its trial structure in October 2018. This was confirmed by the Chairman of the Military Committee (MC), Air Vice Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, on 14 January during the latest MC Meeting in Brussels. The Cyber Operations Centre will conduct its work under SACEUR's command in Mons and is scheduled to become fully operational in 2023. According to Laura Brent, a cyber defence expert in NATO's Emerging Security Challenges Division, the "CyOC serves as NATO's theatre component for cyberspace and is responsible for providing cyberspace si-tuational awareness, centralised planning for the cyberspace aspects of Alliance operations and missions, and coordination for cyberspace operational concerns," calling it In the "the most significant aspect of adapting the NATO Command Structure for cyberspace" in NATO Review magazine. This development prompts at least three questions: What is the NATO's cyber defence policy? How advanced are its current cyber defence capabilities? What cyber defence structures exist in addition to this new Operations Centre?