Minister of National Defence of Lithuania and Poland agreed to strengthen cooperation on cybersecurity and establish a bilateral work group. The decision was taken during the Lithuanian-Polish Defence Council in Vilnius on May 13. Heads of national cyber security hubs of both countries met bilaterally on the same occasion.
“As neighbors, we are facing very similar cyber threats daily. A closer bilateral cooperation will help us ensure a better quality of defence of the infrastructure in our responsibility,” says Deividas Stumbras, Director of the National Cyber Security Centre under the Ministry of National Defence.
Plans ahead for the near term were also discussed at the meeting with Director of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and Commander of the Cyberspace Defense Forces (CDF) of Poland Brig Gen Karol Molenda: in early May the institutions of both countries signed a bilateral cooperation plan.
“Our staff have already established direct contacts and trained in the largest live-fire international cyber defence exercise, Locked Shields, as a joint team back in April, they were successful in the defence of assigned infrastructure and came second among over 20 participant teams,” said D. Stumbras.
Aside from joint training, the bilateral cooperation agreement between the Lithuanian and Polish cyber defence capabilities foresee closer cooperation on cyber-incident response, experience sharing and exchange of information on cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
