Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence
| NATO küberkaitsekoostöö keskus NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence |
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| Located in Signal battalion base Tallinn, Estonia | |
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| Coordinates | 59°25′23.69″N 24°46′3.26″E / 59.4232472°N 24.7675722°ECoordinates: 59°25′23.69″N 24°46′3.26″E / 59.4232472°N 24.7675722°E |
| Type | NATO Centre of Excellence |
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| Controlled by | NATO CCD COE Steering Committee |
| Website | ccdcoe.org |
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| Built | 2008 |
NATO CCD COE, officially the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (Estonian: K5 or NATO küberkaitsekoostöö keskus) is one of NATO Centres of Excellence, located in Tallinn, Estonia. The Centre was established on 14 May 2008, it received full accreditation by NATO and attained the status of International Military Organisation on 28 October 2008. NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence is an International Military Organisation with a mission to enhance the capability, cooperation and information sharing among NATO, its member nations and partners in cyber defence by virtue of education, research and development, lessons learned and consultation.
In 2003, prior to the country’s official accession to NATO, Estonia proposed the creation of a Centre of Excellence. The 2006 Riga summit listed possible cyber attacks among the asymmetric threats to the common security and acknowledged the need for programs to protect information systems over the long term. The cyber attacks on Estonia in 2007 highlighted for the first time the potential vulnerability of any NATO countries, their institutions and societies, and even NATO itself to disruption or penetration of their information and communications systems.
Estonia’s proposals for a NATO cyber excellence center received strong support from the alliance’s Secretary-General "Jaap" de Hoop Scheffer. NATO completed an assessment of the situation, partly in light of Estonia’s experience, in April 2007, and approved a NATO policy on cyber defence in January 2008. NATO’s summit communiqué in Bucharest in April announced NATO’s readiness to "provide a capability to assist allied nations, upon request, to counter a cyber attack".
The Cyber Defence Center in Tallinn is one of 21 accreditedCentres of Excellence (COEs), for training on technically sophisticated aspects of NATO operations. It is being funded nationally and multi-nationally as these centers are closely linked with Allied Command Transformation and promote the alliance-approved transformation goals.
The main agenda of the facility is to:
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