The exercise held by the Ministry of National Defence is designed to test procedures laid out in the national cyber incident management plan, enhance interaction of the country’s institutions and to train cyber incident response skills in their employees.
“First and foremost, the goal of this exercise is to develop a closer cooperation in cyber security among Lithuanian institutions and to train representatives of those institutions so that they could have experience necessary for countering a real-life cyber threat,” Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas said. According to the Minister, it is essential to hold exercises like that countrywide because cyber threats and attacks occur increasingly more often and in more sophisticated forms, while their harmful effect may damage operation of national information systems and infrastructure.
Representatives of the participating institutions will form 5 teams and will work to protect a virtual information system created for the exercise and to ensure provision of its services. The teams will take part in the exercise from training sites in Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda which were installed for the exercise with assistance of Vilnius University and the Kaunas University of Technology.
Prevention, detection and management of cyber incidents during the exercise will be implemented on the basis of the endorsed national cyber security management plan and organisation and technical cyber security requirements.
The exercise is organised by Cyber Security and Information Technologies Department of the Ministry of National Defence and Cyber Security and Telecommunications Service under the Ministry of National Defence operating as the National Cyber Security Centre with additional resources provided by Vilnius University and the Kaunas University of Technology.
