The General Command of the Military Forces, in collaboration with COLCert Mintic, Cisco Colombia and other sectors of the area, carried out the cyber exercise Capture the Flag (CTF) to evaluate and strengthen response resources to cyber threats.
The exercise, chaired by Colonel Iván Leonardo Giraldo Salazar, second commander and chief of Staff of the Joint Cyber Command, was attended by delegates from sectors such as fuels, health, government, security and defense, commerce, industry and tourism, education and agriculture.
In one morning, the participants competed in real decision-making environments, identifying and exploiting cyber vulnerabilities that could hit the Military Forces and National Cyber Critical structures.
This cyber exercise achieves the objectives in the Ayacucho Plus joint Strategic campaign plan specifically in objective N3: Protect governance, Task No.37 collaborate with the protection of the National cyber critical construction, National Cyber Defense Strategy.
Its purpose included strengthening coordination to anticipate cyber threats, providing tools for decision-making and crisis response, identifying and evaluating the reaction capacity to reduce the materialization of the threat, improving coordination and collaboration to be conducted by multidisciplinary teams, and evaluating the effectiveness of existing security protocols.
The cyber exercise CTF proved to be a strategic and formative initiative of high value to evaluate, strengthen and validate the response resources to cyber threats that may compromise national security and the stability of military operations in Critical Constructions of the country.
Source: Strategic Communications General command of the military forces
