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Largest International Technical Cyber Defense Exercise Begins

Tuesday, April 19th, 2016

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Largest International Technical Cyber Defense Exercise Begins

The largest and most advanced international live-fire cyber defense exercise in the world, Locked Shields 2016, began Monday and continues through Friday this week, according to the organizer, the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence (CCDCOE).This annual event operates as a scenario-based real-time network defense exercise to focus on training experts who protect national information technology (IT) systems daily.Locked Shields 2016, organized by the CCDCOE since 2010, includes over 550 participants and 26 countries. It has 20 Blue Teams…

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