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Cyber Endeavor 2012 – Building Cyber Defense Capacity in our Partner Nations
Hello Cyber Defense Enthusiasts,
Shaun Cavanaugh here again to give you an update on what’s been going on with Cyber Endeavor since my last update in June of last year.
Cyber Endeavor 2011 – A Success!
In September of 2011 the second Cyber Endeavor event was held in Grafenwoehr, Germany. The statistics for Cyber Endeavor 2011 are as follows:
- Length – 2 weeks / 80 hours
- Participants – 76
- Nations/Organizations – 33
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Government / Academia / Industry Facilitators – 19
- 15 of 19 were Public Private Partnerships
- Number of Topics Presented - 34
For those of you that are unfamiliar with what Cyber Endeavor is, allow me to explain. Cyber Endeavor is the United States European Command's paramount cyber security collaboration, familiarization and engagement program designed to strengthen partner nation cyber defense capacities through seminars, events and exercise support. Cyber Endeavor builds cyber defense partnerships with NATO, partner nations, academia and industry. Its purpose is to improve force readiness for deployment in support of exercises, multinational crisis response and future missions.
The official Cyber Endeavor 2011 video is located below. I recommend giving it a watch. It provides a good overview of what Cyber Endeavor is all about and gives insight as to what happens at the event.
Cyber Endeavor 2012 - Maturing
Moving forward, Cyber Endeavor 2012 is scheduled to have more detailed and lengthy courses, as well as support a larger number of students. The thought process for 2012 was why do we want to limit Cyber Endeavor to just one event in September? Why not keep that “main event” and also have regional events throughout the EUCOM area of operation (AOR) during the year? So, that is what we are doing for 2012. Below you’ll see a snapshot of what exactly is in store for 2012.
As you can see, Cyber Endeavor 2012 has matured greatly from last year. We are very proud of this program and I look forward to updating you on its progress throughout the year.
Thank you,
Shaun
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CYBER ENDEAVOR 2011 Mid Planning Conference in Lisbon, Portugal
Last week, William Poole and I (EUCOM Cyber Defense Division International Information Assurance Branch) wrapped up the Cyber Endeavor portion of the Combined Endeavor 2011 mid-planning conference. Let me give you a little background on Cyber Endeavor. Educators and technical professionals from governmental organizations, industry, and academia, provide cyber defense familiarization to audiences from an estimated 40 countries. Cyber Endeavor is the premier forum for international military, industry and academic professionals to collaborate and improve partnerships with the end goal of strengthening collective cyber defense capabilities.
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Switzerland takes part in Combined Endeavor for the 11th time
As you have read previously in this blog, Combined Endeavor is the world’s largest international Command, Control, Communications & Computers (C4) exercise. Participants of CE09 include nations within the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), Partnership for Peace (PfP) or other International Organisations. In recent years most NATO and PfP Nations have been taking part in Peace Supporting Operations (PSOs). Over 1000 participants from more than 40 nations take part in two weeks of intensive technical testing.
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What is the South-Eastern Europe Brigade (SEEBRIG)?
Here at Combined Endeavor 09, we have participating organizations in addition to country participants. One of the organizations -- NATO -- is familiar to many people. SEEBRIG, however, is not as well known, so I want to take a few minutes to tell you about it.
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Excellence in Action: Combined Endeavor’s Regional Site in Denmark
This past weekend I had the pleasure of meeting the national delegations at Combined Endeavor 2009’s regional site at Bülows Kaserne, Fredericia, Denmark. Delegations at this site are from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Slovenia and Sweden with additional support personnel from the United States, Austria and Germany.
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Prepping for CE09
Tomorrow, I'll be gathering my gear and moving into my temporary home at Banja Luca, Bosnia-Herzegovina to do my part within EUCOM's Combined Endeavor 09 exercise.
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Connecting Stuttgart to BiH
Well, the Tandbergs worked between here and Stuttgart! What's a Tandberg? It is a point-to-point (or multipoint) teleconferencing tool used by many commercial firms as well as by many nations. The screen looks like a portrait-sized computer screen (in other words, a normal computer screen turned 90 degrees) and there's a camera embedded into the top of the screen. With this tool, individuals can sit at their desk and communicate with any number of others for video conferences.
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Transforming the Main Operating Base
Things are going well as Kozara Barracks is being transformed into a large telecommunications site to support the Main Operating Base of Combined Endeavor 2009 (CE09). We are finalizing contracts, continuing to build the main operating base infrastructure, and installing several networks which will serve as the backbone for our daily communications during the communications interoperability testing. There are as many Bosnia and Herzogovina military support personnel on the ground here as there are members from the CE staff and early participants!
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Combined Endeavor 2009
CE – Combined Endeavor – is a large telecommunications exercise sponsored by EUCOM but planned and executed by our partner nations. This year, 2009, we are moving the exercise out of Germany for the first time in our 14 year history to Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is a big enough challenge planning this exercise, but this year we add the challenge of building a new infrastructure to support the exercise.
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This is successful international collaboration to enhance coalition capabilities - looking forward to 2012 Joey Hernandez CISSP CISM Cyber Operations Officer
Keep up the good work. We look forward to a media brief. Pat C