The Israeli military said Saturday that its Joint Cyber Defense Division (JCDD) and the United States Cyber Command held a joint exercise over the past week.
The drill included training for “a variety of cyber defense challenges,” the Israel Defense Forces said.
“This event demonstrates the strategic partnership between the two militaries, which allows both to achieve cyber network superiority,” the IDF added.
The JCDD is part of the army’s Cyber-Communications and Defense Division, a technological operational body that is in charge of providing the Israeli army and all of its systems with the defense it needs from cyberattacks.
The drill took place at a US Cyber Command facility in the United States, and is the sixth such joint exercise between the JCDD and the US Cyber Command, the military said.
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“Cyberspace is changing and evolving into an everyday global combat space, that threatens to harm governmental, private and civilian bodies,” Maj. Gen. Lior Carmeli, the head of the Cyber Defense Directorate said.
Earlier this month, Israel led a 10-country, 10-day-long simulation of a major cyberattack on the world’s financial system by “sophisticated” players, with the goal of minimizing the damage to banks and financial markets.
The Finance Ministry led the scenario with help from the Foreign Ministry, and said the “war game” was the first of its kind.
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The exercise simulated several scenarios, including sensitive data surfacing on the dark web alongside fake news, leading to global financia ..
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