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NATO Awards Largest Cyber-Security Contract To Date

Posted by timothy on from the well-sir-it's-certainly-big dept.

Sara Chan writes "NATO has awarded its largest cyber-security contract to date, in a move that is expected to prompt member states to augment their own cyber-security capabilities. The contract, for €58 million ($76 million), is to design and implement NATO's Computer Incident Response Capability. NCIRC will enable NATO to monitor computer networks from its headquarters in Brussels and detect and respond to cyber threats and vulnerabilities at about 50 NATO sites in 28 countries. The project is intended to meet the requirements of a declaration by NATO Head of States at the Lisbon Summit, in November 2010, which called for the achievement of NCIRC Full Operational Capability by end of 2012."

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  1. Where will the hardware be made? by BenJCarter · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What do you want to bet most of the hardware the UN purchases will be manufactured behind the Iron Firewall?

    I'll bet I don't think this is a good idea...

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  2. Re:Why NATO? by Securityemo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    NATO is a military alliance between a subset of UN members - it would exist as long as the member states found it useful to exist, would it not?

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  3. Successful bidders by Woogiemonger · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If anyone is curious (I was), the successful bidders were Finmeccanica through SELEX Elsag and VEGA (based in the United Kingdom) together with its partner Northrup Grumman Corporation team. So it looks like that involves Italy, the UK, and the US: http://www.defpro.com/news/details/33224/?SID=45a71f6bf4374255010ce6a71de99974

  4. Re:Yes... by Sara+Chan · · Score: 3, Informative

    We don't know it's a bullshit contract until we have the name of the contractor to research some background (please include those details in the summary in future). I'm admitting that I haven't RTFA, but as soon as I read headlines like these I want to research the contractor.

    I am the story submitter. The contractors are Finmeccanica and Northrop Grumman. Some research background is given in the last link in the summary.