GEORGIAN EXPERIENCE OF DEVELOPING CYBER CAPABILITIES IN THE DEFENCE FIELD

Abstract

Large-scale attacks from 2008 and 2011 against Georgia further emphasized the necessity of implementing law on information security and founding cyber actors in the country. Announcing cyber security as a challenge of collective defence and recognizing the ultimate importance of the providing proper cyber security in the defence field, Georgia started developing its cyber capabilities in the sector in early 2014, through its LEPL Cyber Security Bureau. This article will review 8-year experience of Georgia, describes the deterrent issues in this process and bring information regarding the successful steps, which deserve to be noticed.

Keywords

• cyber capabilities
• cyber defence
• georgian experience
• cyber strategy
• cyber security
• defence sector