Albanian team included Franc Zylyftari from the e-Government Security Directorate at the National Agency for Information Society, Adriano Lleshi and Ilir Daka from the National Authority on Electronic Certification and Cyber Security.

Global CyberDrill is an unique event that brings together National Cyber Security Authorities, National Cyber Security agencies, as well as National  CERTs/CIRTs/CSIRT from around the world to foster global cooperation and partnership in mitigating cyber threats.

The event helps to assess performance of every national team at a global level, as well as to foster unanimous interaction and partnership in tackling cyber threats.

Teams from 108 countries took part in the drill with simulation of real cyber attack and response scenarios to assess their performance based on speed and response to cyber threats.

In the episode 16 of the third series of his “LET’S TALK” podcast, Prime Minister Edi Rama had invited the world’s wining team of the Global CyberDrill, including Franc Zylyftari, Adriano Lleshi and Ilir Daka.

PM Rama underlined that “the cyber war is a crossroads on the Internet and virtual space, where the whole world is interconnected via all roads, highways and where states and different forces within states and cyber terror groups are increasingly active.”

“Albania was under a cyber attack from a powerful state in this war and I think it is important for us to share today parts of the truth and unspoken truth about this war with three protagonists on our war front,” Rama said in his introduction at the start of the conversation with the three winners of the Global CyberDrill competition.

“When we realized that Albania ranked first in this global drill, we started thinking about what we could do more. We recalled what we went through and how we responded to cope with the cyber attack. Finding the key solutions we employed to repel the attack we succeeded in solving a series of other exercises in the process,” Ilirian Daka said.

The drill specifically focused on the crucial role the national cyber security centers and the emergency response teams play, as well as ways to enhance cyber security and defend critical information infrastructure.

Commenting on the success of the Albanian team, Franc Zylyftari said: “By wining this international cyber security drill, we showed that we have developed the knowhow and right expertise to successfully respond and tackle cyber attacks.”

Apart from improved performance of electronic systems, electronic public services and the radical development of the e-government, Albania has focused significant attention to strengthening measures and increasing the level of preparedness against the constant cyber threats in the last few years.

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