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NATO Pushes Members To Improve Cyber Hygiene And Collaboration At Exercise

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, June 30th, 2017

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Leaders at a NATO cyber training exercise in Poland are urging member nations to improve cyber hygiene and move towards increased collaboration in the face of growing threats to network systems, according to Johan Goossens, branch head for the organization’s Allied Command Transformation, Technology & Human Factors Branch.NATO is holding its annual Coalition Warrior Interoperability eXercise (CWIX) from June 12 to 29 in Bydgoszcz, Poland, where over 1,000 representatives from 26 nations and 88 military commands have gathered to discuss…

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