This report is a part of a NATO CCD COE project that assembles a comprehensive overview of existing national
organisational models for ensuring cyber security in NATO Nations that are Sponsoring Nations to the NATO
CCD COE.
The study outlines the division of cyber security tasks and responsibilities between different agencies, describes
their mandate, tasks and competences, and the coordination among them. In particular, it describes the
mandates of political and strategic management; operational cyber security capabilities and cyber incident
management; military cyber defence; and cyber aspects of crisis prevention and crisis management. It also
offers a summary of the national information society setting and e-government initiatives as well as the
national cyber security strategy objectives in order to clarify the context for the organisational approach in a
particular nation.
The result is a series of country chapters, outlining national cyber security management structures by nation.
The project contributes to awareness among NATO Allies about cyber security management in the varied
national settings, thus supporting nations enhancing their own organisational structure, encouraging the
spread of best practices, and contributing to the development of cooperation between different national
institutions in NATO nations.
The NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (NATO CCD COE) is an international military
organisation accredited in 2008 by NATO’s North Atlantic Council as a ‘Centre of Excellence’. Located in Tallinn,
Estonia, the Centre is currently supported by the Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy,
Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, the United Kingdom and the USA as Sponsoring
Nations and Austria as a Contributing Participant. The Centre is neither part of NATO’s command or force
structure, nor is it funded by NATO. However, it is part of a wider framework supporting NATO Command
Arrangements.
NATO CCD COE’s mission is to enhance capability, cooperation and information sharing between NATO, NATO
member states and NATO’s partner countries in the area of cyber defence by virtue of research, education and
consultation. The Centre has taken a NATO-oriented interdisciplinary approach to its key activities, including
academic research on selected topics relevant to the cyber domain from the legal, policy, strategic, doctrinal
and/or technical perspectives, providing education and training, organising conferences, workshops and cyber
defence exercises, and offering consultations upon request.
For more information on NATO CCD COE, visit the Centre’s website at http://www.ccdcoe.org.
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