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Yesterday, Estonia welcomed Ireland's Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence, @HMcEntee, for an official visit. 🇮🇪As part of the programme, Ireland's representative at the @ccdcoe had the opportunity to brief the Minister on Ireland's engagement with the Centre, in what proved to be a valuable and informative discussion.

Today, we were honoured to welcome NB8 energy ministers and senior officials to @ccdcoe as part of the NB8 Energy Ministers’ meeting in Tallinn. ⚡️The delegation took part in a tabletop exercise built around a fictional electricity crisis in the Nordic-Baltic region.

What does it take to build a complex cyber operations exercise? Months of planning, coordination and testing. This week, the #CrossedSwords2026 team came together for the Main Planning Conference, bringing different exercise elements around the same table to refine the scenario, coordinate activities and work through the details ahead of the exercise. A big thank you to all planners who joined us!

The conversations sparked at #CyCon2026 are still moving forward. We are delighted to see them continue through a new Articles of War series exploring new technologies, military AI and international humanitarian law. 🔗First in the series: lieber.westpoint.edu/cycon-2…

Today, we were honoured to host Mr Shiji Yoshida, Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Defense of Japan. 🇯🇵The meeting focused on CCDCOE’s cooperation with the Indo-Pacific region, as well as cooperation with industry.

Following their earlier @CCDCOE publication "Ontological Foundations of Cognitive Warfare" a Ukrainian research team now turns to the human agent. 🎯The new paper "A Structural Model of the Human Agent in Cognitive Warfare" asks a question most defences skip: when the mind of a commander, analyst, or official is the target, what exactly is being hit? Not what they believe, but how they decide. 👉Read the full paper: ccdcoe.org/library/publicati…

During a recent working visit to Kyiv, @SSSCIP and @ccdcoe outlined areas for strategic partnership and discussed the implementation of joint initiatives aimed at strengthening collective cyber resilience. 🤝 👉Read more: ccdcoe.org/news/2026/nato-cc…

Today marked the conclusion of the July edition of the @ccdcoe Cyber Intelligence Course, bringing together 30 intelligence and cybersecurity professionals for two weeks of learning and collaboration. Through a combination of expert presentations and hands-on syndicate work, the course establishes a common baseline, enabling participants to apply traditional intelligence processes to the cyber domain and produce effective and actionable Cyber Intelligence.

📢Call for Papers for CyCon 2027: Unified Response: the Programme Committee invites the submission of original research papers for the 19th International Conference on Cyber Conflict, taking place in Tallinn from 25–28 May 2027. 👉More information: easychair.org/cfp/CyCon2027

#CyCon2026 may be over, but the conversations continue. 🎬Watch the aftermovie and relive the highlights of this year's conference. 👉A selection of recordings of the conference are available at: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL… Preparations for #CyCon2027: Unified Response are already underway. We look forward to welcoming you back to Tallinn on 25–28 May 2027!

Last week, @ccdcoe hosted the Advanced Exploitation Course (EXA) in Tallinn. Over an intensive week, the students recapped some basics and then learned through practical challenges how to run exploits in modern operating systems and bypass today’s security mitigations step by step. The course is highly technical and involves a lot of hands-on command-line work. We hope the 19 students from 10 different nations enjoyed the course and left with sharper exploiting skills!

#LockedShields2026, the world’s largest live-fire cyber defence exercise, brought together 4,000 participants from 41 nations to strengthen their ability to protect critical infrastructure and military systems against real-time cyber threats. Thank you to everyone who contributed to its success – see you at #LockedShields2027! 🛡️

At last week’s CyCon Commanders Forum, Commandant Robert Gallagher 🇮🇪 presented the Cyber in Operations Handbook project. The handbook aims to provide practical guidance for operational planners and commanders on effectively integrating cyber capabilities into all phases of military operations and is is due for publication in May 2027.

Having today wrapped up #CyCon2026, we are happy to announce the theme for CyCon 2027, which will be Unified Response. See you back in Tallinn on 25-28 May 2027! More photos: flickr.com/photos/133800821@…

"Countries and international organisations cannot ensure cybersecurity alone. We need to cooperate private sector, who is often in the front line of cybersecurity and is able to take the necessary steps faster than governments," said 🇪🇪 DefMin @HPevkur in his opening speech at #CyCon2026.

#CyCon2026 was honoured to welcome two heads of state to the stage today - @AlarKaris, President of the Republic of Estonia, and Petr Pavel, President of the Czech Republic. A key takeaway: AI is reshaping the battlefield in both directions - enabling faster, more sophisticated attacks, while also becoming one of the most powerful tools of cyber defence. But technology alone will not secure tomorrow. Investing in cyber defence means investing in education, awareness and international cooperation. No country, government or company can do this alone.

The 18th International Conference on Cyber Conflicts, #CyCon2026: Securing Tomorrow, opened today in Tallinn, bringing together nearly 800 participants from 50 countries to discuss how governments, industry leaders, legal experts, and technologists can work together to adapt to emerging threats in the cyber domain. The opening keynote was delivered by Jean-Charles Ellermann-Kingombe, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Cyber Defence and Digital Transformation. Read more: ccdcoe.org/news/2026/global-…