Upgrade of Maritime Surveillance Cyber Threats and Incident Response Information Sharing Platform Cyber Rapid Response Teams and Mutual Assistance in Cyber Security The project on Upgrade of Maritime Surveillance will integrate land-based surveillance systems, maritime and air platforms in order to distribute realtime information to Member States, so as to provide timely and effective response in the international waters. The main objective of the program is to enhance the Maritime Surveillance, Situational Awareness and potential Response Effectiveness of the EU, by using the existing infrastructure, deploying assets and developing related capabilities in the future. It aims to address timely and effectively new and old threats and challenges (such as energy security, environmental challenges, security and defence aspects); thus ensuring accurate Awareness and Rapid Response, so as to contribute to the protection of the EU and its citizens. Cyber Threats and Incident Response Information Sharing Platform will develop more active defence measures, potentially moving from firewalls to more active measures. This project aims to help mitigate these risks by focusing on the sharing of cyber threat intelligence through a networked Member State platform, with the aim of strengthening nations' cyber defence capabilities. Cyber Rapid Response Teams (CRRTs) will allow Member States to help each other to ensure higher level of cyber resilience and to collectively respond to cyber incidents. Cyber RRTs could be used to assist other Member States and EU Institutions, CSDP operations as well as partner countries. CRRTs will be equipped with unified Deployable Cyber Toolkits designed to detect, recognise and mitigate cyber threats. The response teams would be able to assist with training, diagnostics and attribution forensics, and assistance in operations. The aim of this project is to integrate Member State expertise in the field of cyber defence. Panagiotis AGRAFIOTIS Spokesperson of the Permanent Representation of Greece pagrafiotis@gpo.be Panagiotis AGRAFIOTIS Spokesperson of the Permanent Representation of Greece pagrafiotis@gpo.be Žana TARASĖ Spokesperson of the Permanent Representation of Lithuania zana.tarase@eu.mfa.lt