On November 13 through 22 the Lithuanian Armed Forces run cyber security exercise Amber Mist 2024 to enhanced cyber defence, as well as international and inter-institutional cooperation skills in cyber capabilities of the Lithuanian Armed Forces. Skills of detection and adequate response to hostile activities will be trained using realistic real-time cyber-attack vectors, e.g. DDoS, APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats), spear-phishing against concrete individuals, ransomware attacks, and other possible types of cyber threats. The training will help to assess identification, analysis and prevention abilities in the training audience.
Held for the eleventh time, the annual cyber security exercise involves over 300 cyber security experts from Belgium, Japan, U.S., Croatia, Latvia, Poland, Lithuania, Romania, Georgia, Slovenia, Taiwan, Ukraine, and also Lithuania’s private and public sectors, universities and IT companies. Representatives of Australia, the Philippines, Japan, Taiwan and Germany attend on observers’ rights.
Training readiness of the Lithuanian Armed Forces and core state and civilian capabilities for protection against hostile activities improves security and resilience of the state of Lithuania. The international cyber security exercise Amber Mist has been conducted since the operational meaning of cyber domain in military operational sense was defined in 2013. The necessity to train and maintain capabilities and abilities to ensure an effective defence of critical infrastructure of the Armed Forces and the state against cyber threats was formulated. Exercise objectives are building year by year, as well as foreign military involvement side by side with the engagement of the civilian and state sector.
