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Parham Eftekhari, Executive Vice President of Communities at CyberRisk Alliance, attended the LOCKED SHIELDS 2024 cyber exercise last week. What follows are his takeaways from the event.<\/em><\/p>\n

On April 18,  FBI Director Christopher Wray warned national security and intelligence experts that the risk the government of China poses to U.S. national and economic security are \u201cupon us now\u201d\u2014and that U.S. critical infrastructure is a prime target<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe PRC [People\u2019s Republic of China] has made it clear that it considers every sector that makes our society run as fair game in its bid to dominate on the world stage, and that its plan is to land low blows against civilian infrastructure to try to induce panic and break America\u2019s will to resist,\u201d he said during his remarks at the Vanderbilt Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats in Nashville. <\/p>\n

To neutralize this threat, Wray and other national security leaders have called for stronger partnerships between governments, commercial, and academic institutions.<\/p>\n

LOCKED SHIELDS 2024<\/h2>\n

Last week, I witnessed firsthand how partnerships can combat cyber threats when I had the privilege of attending Exercise LOCKED SHIELDS 2024, the largest and most complex international live-fire cyber defense exercise in the world with more than 3,000 participants from 38 nations.   <\/p>\n

As a participant in the exercise\u2019s Distinguished Visitors Day representing the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology<\/a> (ICIT) in my capacity as Chairman alongside ICIT CEO Cory Simpson, I had the opportunity to attend several briefings and roundtable sessions where domestic and international partnerships were highlighted as a mission-critical component of our national security strategy.  Throughout the day I learned about ongoing efforts by state and federal agencies to strengthen critical infrastructure resilience by solving some of today\u2019s most pressing challenges including workforce development, security-by-design, and cross-sector information sharing.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Cyber Command’s Joint Force Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Network<\/a> (JFHQ-DODIN ) and its National Center of Excellence for Cybersecurity in Critical Infrastructure led the U.S. team\u2019s operations, consisting of international partners from Norway and Montenegro and domestic partners from across government, industry, and academia.  Exercise LOCKED SHIELDS 2024 U.S. operations were held at the University of West Virginia Campus in Morgantown, W.V., a reflection of the state\u2019s impact on the cybersecurity sector with W.V. natives like Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Karen Evans, Travis Rosiek, and ICIT\u2019s Simpson propelling the state to the forefront of cybersecurity and cloud computing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The exercise served as a crucible for honing cyber defense capabilities on a global scale, with the U.S. Team’s training objectives focused on:<\/p>\n

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