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The Ministry of Defense today ended the one -week National Exercise Cyber Fortress 2025. The Cyber Center and the Directorate for Defense Affairs have organized the exercise for regional experts in the state administration with the goals of strengthening the competence of technical staff, checking communications and strengthening cooperation between stakeholders in cyber.About forty experts in cyber security from the ministries for digital transformation, interior, defense and external and European affairs, the Slovenian Armed Forces, the Police as well as from the National Si-Cert National Response Center, trained at a cyber training ground for detecting and responding to cyber incidents, and limiting and eliminating their network consequences. defended.
As part of a fictional but realistic scenario, participants gained practical knowledge and experience of detecting and responding to cyber incidents and so -called advanced permanent threats (English Advanced Persistent Threats), and at the first national exercise of cyber defense, they also checked the creation and technical functioning of the national technical group for a quick response. (English Cyber Rapid Response Team - Crt) on a common network that has not yet been established in the Republic of Slovenia. The Crrt Groups task was to detect, analyze, evaluate and evaluate the cyber incident in a timely manner, to eliminate vulnerability and to perform defense against cyber attacks on state administration information communication infrastructure, explained cyber rehearsal and exercises Ales Cretnik. He assessed the work of cyber security experts in the group with expert knowledge of individual domains of cyber safety - defense and security, as extremely successful: In addition to new technical knowledge, the exercise gained experience to perceive and respond to cyber attacks, which in the real world are performed by national supporting groups for advanced permanent threats or actors with her financial or logistical hinterland. The purpose of the exercise was also for experts within the state administration to get to know each other and participate in regular work.
The Ministry of Defense, with its rapidly developing cyber training, wants to organize a national exercise every year, enabling cyber security professionals to gain valuable experience and exchange of knowledge through technically complex and advanced infrastructure. Since the establishment of the operational capacity of a cyber training ground in February 2024, the Ministry of Defense Center has organized ten exercises with a total of 350 participants, two of which are international. In July this year, they successfully completed the Slovenian-Croatian Cyber Range Connect project, aimed at establishing a federation of cyber tracts on the Simspace platform. With this project, both countries are among the first in the European Union and NATO in connecting cyber -ways outside multinational projects, and the ambition of both countries is the further expansion of the federation in the region and beyond.
Exercise logo Cyber fortress 2025 | Author: Ministry of Defense
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