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National and international cyberexercises are increasing as cybersecurity and cybercrisis...

National and international cyberexercises are increasing as cybersecurity and cybercrisis cooperation receive more attention, the European Network and Information Security Agency said Thursday. ENISA surveyed (http://bit.ly/S8RITV) 85 national and international exercises from 2002-2012, 71 percent of which took place over…

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the past two years. EU governments are placing more emphasis on cyberstrategy and the increasing threat of cross-border attacks, the agency said. There’s an “essential need” to boost public-private coordination on the exercises, because most of the information about critical information infrastructures is held privately, it said. ENISA’s recommendations are: (1) Establish a more integrated global cyberexercise community. (2) Ensure exchange of good practices. (3) Support development of exercise management tools for better planning, execution and assessment. (4) Hold more complex exercises at inter-sectoral, international and European levels. (5) Include exercises in the life cycle of national cyber contingency plans. (6) Promote good practices for national exercises and use a step-by-step methodology for cross-border cyberexercises. (7) Develop feedback mechanisms to ensure that lessons are learned.