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This report draws attention to the urgency to improve cooperation between the public and the private sectors in order to increase readiness and resilience to hybrid challenges.
Friends of Europe’s annual online tabletop simulation exercise brought together senior officials and experts from NATO, the EU, national authorities, the media and business to test their collective response to a range of credible hybrid threat scenarios. Based on the findings of the innovative exercise, the report identifies eight recommendations to improve cooperation between the public and private sectors in order to deter, detect and defend societies from hybrid attacks and to increase whole-of-society resilience.
The novelty of this innovative exercise was to assess any improvement on the vulnerabilities identified in the 2019 exercise, as well as how to deal with emerging issues such as our increased reliance on resilient electrical systems and new developments regarding the impact of disinformation on societies during crisis. This second exercise also emphasised the role of cities and local actors, who often serve as the first line of defence and first responders in hybrid challenges.
With 80-90% of all critical infrastructure owned and operated by the private sector in many Western countries, it is crucially important to ensure public-private cooperation is effective, that communication channels are working and that roles and responsibilities are correctly assigned and understood when faced with hybrid crises.
Following our 2019 tabletop simulation exercise “Hybrid warfare readiness: a tabletop exercise”, Friends of Europe will gather senior officials and experts from NATO, the EU, national authorities, the media, business and members of the public to test their collective responsiveness to a range of credible hybrid threat scenarios and build on our recommendations for improving cooperation among the key actors affected by such crises.
The exercise will be held behind closed doors and is by invitation only. The outcomes and key recommendations will be widely distributed.
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Participants include
Philipp Amann
Head of Europol’s Expertise and Stakeholder Management Unit
Lukas Andriukaitis
Associate Director at the Atlantic Council of the United States Digital Forensic Research Lab
Rubén Arcos
Rey Juan Carlos University
Cristina Arribas
Intelligence Analyst, social media insights and geopolitics
Luís Barreira de Sousa
Ambassador for Cyberdiplomacy at the portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Hanneke Brouwer
Seconded national expert at the European Centre of Excellence for Civilian Crisis Management
Kostas Dervenis
Senior Sales Manager at Intrasoft International
Maria do Rosario Penedos
Coter Delegate & Hybrid WP Chair at the Permanent Representation of Portugal to the EU
Amy-Anne Fairhurst
Global Head of Crisis Management & EMEA Head of Cyber Investigations, Citi Security & Investigative Services at Citigroup
Jon France
Head of Industry Security at GSMA
Jessica Giandomenico
Head of research and analysis at Earhart Business Protection Agency
Caroline Groene
Policy Advisor, Cybersecurity & Digital Diplomacy, European Government Affairs, Microsoft
Klaus Gundolf
Head of Internal Crisis Management Team at Siemens
Jonathan Toby Harris
Member of the House of Lords, Chair of the National Preparedness Commissio, former Chairof the Metropolitan Police Authority, and former Reviewer of London’s terrorist preparedness
Vadim Ivanov
Deputy director at the Estonian Rescue College
Ana Cristina Jorge
Director of Operational Response Division at the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (FRONTEX)
Andrej Kavar
PMG Coordinator at the Permanent Representation of Slovenia to the EU
Gilles De Kerchove
EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator at the Council of the European Union General Secretariat
Athanasios Kosmopoulos
Data Protection Officer at the Greek Ministry of Digital Governance
Stefan Kowitz
Director at the Multinational Medical Coordination Center/European Medical Command
Chris Kremidas-Courtney
Senior Advisor at Defend Democracy, Lecturer at the Institute for Security Governance and former Senior Fellow at Friends of Europe.
Rosamund Lewis
Head of the Smallpox Secretariat, Emerging Diseases and Zoonoses Unit, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization
Hanna Linderstål
CEO of the Earhart Business Protection Agency
Iivi Luuk
Policy Officer for Civil Protection Policy at the European Commission Directorate-General for Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO)
Merle Maigre
Senior Expert on Cyber Security at the e-Governance Academy Foundation
Paivi Mattila
Director of Security Research Program at the Laurea University of Applied Sciences and EU-HYBNET project coordinator
Rémi Mayet
Deputy Head of Unit for energy security and safety at the European Commission Directorate General for Energy
Tarik Meziani
Head of Unit for Media Operations at the Council of the European Union Directorate-General for Communication and Information
Megan Minnion
Policy Officer at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Operations Division (OPS)
Juerguen Muntenaar
Deputy Director for NATO Matters at the Multinational Medical Coordination Center/ European Medical Command
Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones
Member of the House of the Lords National Security Strategy Joint Committee, former minister of state in the United Kingdom and Trustee of Friends of Europe
Cyril Nguyen
Safety Director at ENGIE
Qëndron Kastrati
Mayor of the Municipality of Kamenica, Kosovo, and European Young Leader
Julian Patzina
Senior Security Manager at Siemens
Wayne C. Raabe
Director of Interagency Partnering at the U.S. European Command (USEUCOM)
Vira Ratsiborynska
Research analyst at North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
Clare Roberts
Senior Policy Coordinator for Hybrid Warfare/Resilience at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Operations Division (OPS)
Shaun Romeril
Lead consultant at 2creatEffects and former Police Officer at the Metropolitan Police and senio advisor for counter terrorism strategy
Alessio Rugo
Head of the Audit and Security Section at the Telematics Department - IT Service, General Command of the Guardia di Finanza
Shiho Rybski
Director of Exercises at The European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE)
Burcu San
Director of Operations at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Operations Division (OPS)
Hans Schoemaker
Political Administrator at the Council of the European Union Directorate for Foreign Affairs, Enlargement and Civil Protection
Teri Schultz
Freelance Reporter for NPR and Deutsche Welle; Podcast Host, Atlantic Council
Jamie Shea
Senior Fellow for Peace, Security and Defence at Friends of Europe, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Edvardas Šileris
Head of Europol's European Cybercrime Centre
Sabrina Spieleder
Policy Officer at the European External Action Service (EEAS) Division Strategic Communications and Information Analysis
Alice Stollmeyer
Founder & Executive Director of Defend Democracy
Miklós Szócska
Board member of the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG)
Paul Taylor
Senior Fellow for Peace, Security and Defence at Friends of Europe
Renata Vertovsek
Head of Section for civil capabilities and crisis response at the Slovenian Ministry of Defence
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