Col Rizwan Ali - US Air Force - Cyber Defence in NATO’s Military Structure

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RIZWAN ALI, Colonel, US Air Force

Team Leader, Task Force Cyber

Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (NATO)

@CyberRizaleerizwan.ali@shape.nato.int

https://www.linkedin.com/in/CyberRiz

Case Study:Incorporating Cyber into NATO Military Structure

Numerous undeterred actors

Motivation of threat actors remains strong

Actors test adversaries’ technical and political resolve

Muted response may create permissive environment

Adapted from Office of the US Director of National Intelligence’s unclassified assessment

Threat Landscape

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International organization

Consensus decision making

North Atlantic Council

NATO 101

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• Purely cyber defense

• Cyber attacks can reach Article 5

• Robust assistance to Allies

NATO’s Cyber Policy

4

Technical aspects of cyber defense handled by

NATO C&I Agency

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NATO’s Cyber Structure

If cyber defense not controlledby the military, what role

is there for NATO’s Military Authorities?

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NATO Military Authorities’ Dilemma

Determine military need

Develop a plan

Implementation

Course correction

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• Incorporate cyber into operational processes

• Build cyber into plans

• Develop cyber injects for exercises

• Ensure continuity of operations

• Develop cyber situational awareness

• Define and refine cyber capabilities

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Military Need / Develop Plan

• Incorporate cyber into operational processes

• Build cyber into plans

• Develop cyber injects for exercises

• Ensure continuity of operations

• Develop cyber situational awareness

• Define and refine cyber capabilities

9

Implementation

Bureaucratic momentum is non-trivial

Overcoming the non-trivial bureaucratic momentum:

• Embedded cyber into SHAPE’s OpsCenter

• “Forced” ourselves into meetings and conferences

• Insisted on approval authority cyber inject development

• Established Task Force for Cyber – key matrix management success

• Provided daily/weekly reports to SACEUR & staff

• Became “info-central” for cyber in NATO

Implementation

We made ourselves indispensable to SACEUR and Ops10

• Incorporate cyber into operational processes

• Build cyber into plans

• Develop cyber injects for exercises

• Ensure continuity of operations

• Develop cyber situational awareness

• Define and refine cyber capabilities

11

Military Need / Develop Plan

Ensure continuity of operations

Not a pure CIS (J6) issue

Continuity of Ops not continuity of CIS

Experts are Ops (J3) and Plans (J5)

Operations must continue in degraded and deniedcyber environments

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Implementation

Difficult to define

No standard industry or military framework

Consulted experts around the globe

Required SHAPE to develop our own concept

Cyber Situational Awareness

13

Implementation

NIFCThreat

Reports

NIFCThreat

Reports

NIFCThreat

Reports

NIFCThreat

Reports

NIFCThreat

Reports

NIFCThreat

Reports

NIFCThreat

Reports

NetworkThreat

Reports

Cyber SecuritySensor

Network

AlliesCyber Intel

Cyber Reports

Commercial Cyber SA

Open Source

Collection

Military Commands

Cyber SA: Aggregation of data is non-trivial

National IntelAnalysis and

Briefings

Network Ops Ctr

Source: Unclassified SHAPE product

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Mission Awareness

Threat

Network AwarenessCyber SA

Cyber SA: The Framework

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Threat

Cyber SA

Allies

Cyber Sensors

Event correl-ation

TF Cyber

NetworkOps

Subordinate Commands

Vendors

Commercial Cyber SA

Feeds

NATO Intel

Other On-Demand Analysis Trend

Analysis

Threat Analysis

Unusual Insider Activity Analysis

NATO Network CD Key

IndicatorsStrategic Website Status

Open Sources

Stra

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c-Le

vel

Dat

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ysis

Dat

a Fu

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n

Academia

Mission

Network

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Develop coherent vision for future

Don’t be dependent on existing frameworks

Form a matrix team to implement vision

Ensure executive-level approval

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Key Lessons

Involve Operators (J3 & Ops Center) from Day 1

Stress that Cyber is not same as CIS

RIZWAN ALI, Colonel, US Air Force

Team Leader, Task Force Cyber

Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (NATO)

@CyberRiz, aleerizwan.ali@shape.nato.inthttps://www.linkedin.com/in/CyberRiz

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