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Cyber Defense Partnerships Lead to Lasting Relationships
“PERSHENDETJE NGA SHQIPERIA”,
“GREETINGS FROM ALBANIA"
In late March, I made my first visit to the charming and friendly city of Tirana, Albania. A highlight of my trip was meeting with senior leadership from EUCOM and the Albanian Ministry of Defense and Chief of Defense to discuss opportunities to preserving partnership capacity in cyber defense by strengthening collective International cyber security postures and cooperation. The meeting emphasized the nation’s cyber program -- the importance of Albania’s cyber defense capability to protect and defend its information systems and infrastructure to obtain funding and resources to support their military.
Meetings with Col. Chesk Millja, Albania J6, and his staff provided us with an opportunity to map out our future military-to-military cyber engagements between Albania, EUCOM, and the New Jersey National Guard through the State Partnership Program. The EUCOM International Cyber Engagement team leverages and integrates the capabilities of the SPP to augment and support their programs.
Increasing our partners’ cyber defense postures to protect and defend against threats and vulnerabilities which disrupt free use of the global information grid is a top priority here at EUCOM where we are committed to building enduring cyber defense partnerships with Albania and other NATO and Partnership for Peace (PfP) countries. We are working to strengthen our collective cyber defense and improving deployment readiness with interoperable and secure command, control, communications and computer systems that make us more ready to meet the global challenge of securing cyberspace in a multinational forum and participate as equal partners in a coalition cyber environment.
Albania is committed to this cyber partnership and plans to host a Cyber Endeavor Seminar in spring 2013. Cyber Endeavor is EUCOM’s cyber defense collaboration and familiarization venue designed to strengthen partner nation cyber defense capacity through seminars, events, and exercise support.
We look forward to strengthening and sustaining our cyber partnership with Albania.
For further information on cyber military issues, contact the International Cyber Engagement (ICE) team at ICE@eucom.mil.
Stephanie A. Dantzler
International Cyber Engagement Chief
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Trojans, Malware and Botnets got you down…?
We know that cyber attacks are employed not just for cyber crime (i.e. to access your bank account), but also to discredit national agencies and governments (i.e. the cyber attacks against Estonia and Georgia). It is incumbent on all of us to “know our enemy” to best defend against such attacks. The best means for doing so is for governments to regularly partner with academia and the private sector (i.e. with IT safety enterprises) to form a sort of cyber coalition.
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