The European Union and NATO have today signed a Technical Arrangement
between the NATO Computer Incident Response Capability (NCIRC) and the Computer
Emergency Response Team – European Union (CERT-EU).
The agreement facilitates technical information sharing between NCIRC and
CERT-EU to improve cyber incident prevention, detection and response in both
organisations, in line with their decision making autonomy and procedures.
The signing of this agreement is an important milestone to implement the
objectives of the EU Cyber Defence Policy Framework, which has set cooperation
with NATO as one of its five priorities.
Advanced incident response
coordination allows for further development of practical cooperation and the
sharing of best practice in cyber defence between the EU and NATO.
The EU-NATO cooperation in cyber security issues started in 2010, with high
level staff-to-staff cyber defence consultations and informal meetings that now
take place annually. NCIRC and CERT-EU have been cooperating since the creation
of CERT-EU in 2011.
The EU has been also observing the NATO annual cyber defence exercise,
"Cyber Coalition". Several informal cooperation initiatives have
taken place between NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence and EU
agencies.
The Technical Arrangement was signed at NATO Headquarters, ahead of the
NATO Defence Ministers' Meeting, by Head of CERT-EU Freddy Dezeure and Head of
NCIRC Ian West, in the presence of the Deputy Secretary General of the European
External Action Service (EEAS), Pedro Serrano, and Assistant Secretary General
of NATO, Sorin Ducaru.
Mr Serrano said that "the signing of this arrangement is an important
milestone in the strengthened cyber defence cooperation with NATO, which was
also identified as one of the five priorities under the EU Cyber Defence Policy
Framework."
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