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Lithuania Holding First National Cybersecurity Exercise on Sept. 27-29

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Lithuania's first national cybersecurity exercise Cyber Shield 2016 is taking place in the country on September 27-29, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defense said in a statement on Tuesday.

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VILNIUS (Sputnik) — Over a 100 representatives from various agencies will practice protecting information systems and responding to cyber incidents at training sites in Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipeda.

“First and foremost, the goal of this exercise is to develop a closer cooperation in cyber security among Lithuanian institutions and to train representatives of those institutions so that they could have experience necessary for countering a real-life cyber threat,” National Defense Minister Juozas Olekas said as quoted by the ministry.

The exercise is organized by Cyber Security and Information Technologies Department of the Ministry of National Defense and Cyber Security and Telecommunications Service under the Ministry of National Defense.

“The exercise held by the Ministry of National Defense is designed to test procedures laid out in the national cyber incident management plan,” the ministry added.

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