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Industry said, “Show me the money,” and NATO obliged. Officials shared several key business initiatives to meet future NATO needs during the three-day NITEC 2016 cyber conference, informing industry members about 3 billion euros worth of upcoming business opportunities and contract work.

NATO allies rely more heavily on industry for solutions to counter attacks on networks, infrastructure.

The key to cybersecurity woes might be found in the relationships created between government and industry, the Defense Department’s chief information officer said. Partnerships might be the "secret weapon to success," particularly in the IT world, Terry Halvorsen offered during his keynote address on day two of the NITEC 2016 cyber conference in Tallinn, Estonia.

The world needs at least 1.5 million cybersecurity professionals who do not exist—a labor shortage created by the increase in frequency and severity of cyber attacks and employers all fishing from the same pond, said Michael Cameron, vice president for business development, cyber and cybersecurity at Leidos, during the NITEC 2016 cyber conference.

Small nation-state budgets aren’t always such a bad thing, offered Ingvar Parnamae, undersecretary for defense investments for the Estonian Ministry of Defense. It forces leaders to make good choices—it is hoped. 

Europe is asleep at the wheel and needs an awakening before it crashes, warned Lt. Gen. Riho Terras, commander of Estonian Defense Forces. The reactionary nature of the continent’s militaries has caught leaders unawares far too many times already, and forces no longer can afford to leave proactive measures to someone else, Gen. Terras shared at of NITEC 2016. 

NATO is dangling roughly 3 billion euros in funding for future cyber-based initiatives to match—and then surpass—the increasingly sophisticated attacks against its 28-member alliance, officials announced Tuesday on the inaugural day of the NITEC 2016 conference.

A threat-centric approach allows networks to establish domains for key functions.

In just a matter of weeks, DISA will open the process for requesting proposals for the next round in the U.S. Defense Department’s cloud services offering. DISA’s pre-solicitation notice serves as notification to industry of the upcoming RFP package for milCloud 2, Phase 1 contract, a government-offered service that, while not a completely commercial cloud-based system, leverages commercial products.

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