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NATO Held Industry Cyber Workshop In August

Thursday, September 8th, 2016

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NATO Held Industry Cyber Workshop In August

The NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency held a cyber Threat Vector Analysis (TVA) workshop along with industry representatives in Valbonne, France on Aug. 23, the agency said Friday.Hosted by Fortinet [FTNT], the workshop focused on Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks. The goal was to better understand the evolution of DDOS attacks to better improve defenses against them.This was the third in a series of events held since February meant to strengthen NATO and industry cyber defenses through collaborative…

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