Young people at laptops. File photoHELSINKI, Apr 20NATO's large-scale cybersecurity exercise Locked Shields 2022 begins in Estonia on Wednesday, the alliance's Tallinn Cyber Defense Center (CCDCOE) said. For two days, more than two thousand participants from 32 countries will practice protecting national IT systems and critical infrastructure from a large-scale cyber attack at the annual Locked Shields exercise. Participating teams will also take tactical and strategic decisions for cooperation in a crisis situation, «the report says. 
The Security Council called US spending on cybersecurity the price of arroganceAccording to the head of the center, Colonel Jaak Tarien, organizing these exercises is a big responsibility for the Tallinn Cyber Defense Center. «Member countries of our center consider Locked Shields the main annual training event for national cyber defense teams,» he said. The exercise scenario sees the fictitious island nation of Berylia face a deteriorating security situation, accompanied by a series of «hostile actions» and coordinated cyber attacks that have severely disrupted power grids, water treatment systems, public safety networks and other critical infrastructure components. National Rapid Response Teams should come to the aid of Berylia to repel cyber attacks and eliminate the consequences of attacks on infrastructure. In 2008, the NATO North Atlantic Council approved the accreditation of the NATO Cyber Defense Center in Tallinn and assigned it the status of an international military organization. Now the USA, Estonia, Germany, France, Great Britain, Belgium, Slovakia, Italy, Portugal, Lithuania, Latvia, Spain, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Holland, Greece, Turkey, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Slovenia, South Korea, Romania, Luxembourg, Ireland, Switzerland, Japan, Canada, Croatia, Norway, Bulgaria and Montenegro. and space
