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Speech by Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană at NATO’s 2024 Cyber Defence Pledge Conference in the Hague

Speech | NATO Transcript

연사: 미르체아 지오아나 (NATO Deputy Secretary General, 나토 사무차장)

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글로서리

1. Romania: 루마니아

2. the North Atlantic Council: 북대서양이사회

3. the Czech Republic: 체코

4. Russia's GRU: 러시아군 총참모부 정보총국 / 러시아 군사정보기관

5. the Republic of Moldova: 몰도바 공화국

6. Article 5 of the Washington Treaty: 워싱턴 조약 제5조

7. the Cyber Defence Pledge: 사이버방위 공약

Thank you so much. Good morning, everyone. Best regards from our Secretary General and the leadership of NATO to all of you, our nations, our permanent representatives, the NATO enterprise, our partners: it's a privilege to be here today.

I think it's a great example that the Netherlands and Romania are hosting together this very important event, because your two countries are both vital for NATO cybersecurity. The Netherlands boasts a strong cyber ecosystem of cyber defence stakeholders. You are making real progress in boosting recruitment of a skilled cyber workforce through government traineeships, cyber reserve programmes, and retraining initiatives. And Romania, the new cyber command will become fully operational later this year, strengthening the resilience of military networks. I'm also saluting the representatives of Romania working in this very important field.

We all know the importance of cyber in safeguarding our security. Every nation represented here has been the focus of cyber-attacks, and is most likely being attacked in some way right now, as we speak. The targets: our militaries, our governments, our corporations and private sector, our infrastructure, but in essence, our democracy. Earlier this month, the North Atlantic Council condemned Russian cyberattacks against Germany, the Czech Republic, and other allies, targeting political parties and democratic institutions. American, British, and Canadian agencies have warned of Russian hacker groups, linked to Russia's GRU, targeting infrastructure, including water treatment plants in Texas and Indiana, Poland and France. Recently, there was a sustained attack on a European port. Had they succeeded, they would have brought the port to a standstill and disrupted supply chains across the European continent. 

Our adversaries are increasingly defying international norms and using cyber and hybrid operations against us. Hackers have burrowed deep into our critical infrastructure, including telecommunications, energy, water and other critical sectors, potentially gaining the ability to wreak havoc at a time of their choosing. And of course, since long before the ground campaigns started, Ukraine has been the target of a large scale and ongoing cyber campaign. The same things happen against the Republic of Moldova with a very important referendum and presidential elections in the next few months. We saw this when the Ukrainian communications were knocked out on the day of the invasion by an attack on its satellite network. And it seems then, with data-wiping attacks on Ukraine's government, commercial and energy sectors, and attacks on its transport networks. 

There is no peace in cyberspace. It is a constantly contested domain, where the line between peacetime, crisis, and conflict, simply does not exist as it does sometimes in the physical world. But like the physical world, the impact of cyber-attacks can be as potentially catastrophic for those under attack. That is why NATO takes cyber so seriously. It is a key part of our collective defence. Cyber activities, or the culmination of cyber activities, can trigger Article 5 of the Washington Treaty; an attack on one ally is an attack on all. And we exercised against those options. Cyber is now a domain of operations, just like land, sea, air and space, and a number of Allies have offered to NATO the use of their national cyber effects, and I want to thank you, and encourage more of the Allies to do the same. NATO also conducts regular exercises, including our flagship cyber coalition exercise, the biggest cyber exercise in the world. And in 2016, Allies signed the Cyber Defence Pledge. It is what brings us together today, and what is driving forward the efforts of our whole Alliance. Through the Pledge, Allies commit to strengthen and enhance their national networks as a matter of priority. 

The Pledge itself is a high-level agreement. It includes commitments to strengthen Allied cyber defences, develop national capabilities, and properly resource this vital work. But beneath those general commitments, there is a huge amount of detail work that is in your hands. The hands of our professionals, of our militaries, of our intelligence, of our superb ecosystem of talent that we have across the Alliance and together with our partners.

The Pledge also provides a maturity model, a pathway for Allies to follow to get to where they need to be. This data will mean Allies can focus resources efficiently, precisely where they are needed most. But the Pledge is not just a technical exercise. We also have much to do to make it operational, and we agree needs to be done. So this is the essence of the political and practical synergy that we need to achieve together.