{"id":212376,"date":"2024-06-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=212376"},"modified":"2024-06-28T20:13:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T20:13:26","slug":"north-carolina-guard-moldova-join-forces-for-cyber-shield-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=212376","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina Guard, Moldova Join Forces for Cyber Shield 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n North Carolina National Guardsmen from the North Carolina Joint Force Headquarters and Moldovan officers pose for a photo during the annual Cyber Shield training event at the Virginia National Guard\u2019s State Military Reservation in Virginia Beach June 13, 2024. Cyber Shield is the longest running and largest Department of Defense cyber exercise comprising nearly 1,000 National Guard and Army Reserve Soldiers, Airmen, civilian cyber professionals, and international partners.
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Moldovan Officers returned to America for a second consecutive year to join North Carolina National Guardsmen during the annual Cyber Shield training event at Virginia National Guard\u2019s State Military Reservation May 31 to June 15.<\/p>\n

Moldova and North Carolina have been partners for 28 years. Moldova is among the seven countries from the Department of Defense National Guard Bureau State Partnership Program that have joined this year\u2019s longest-running and largest DOD cyber exercise.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one of our longest-standing international partner relationships,\u201d said North Carolina Army National Guardsman Lt. Col. Brian Dodd, Cyber Shield\u2019s defense cyber team chief. \u201cWe have two members from Moldova who are training with us who are part of our team. \u2026 They\u2019re on a keyboard working alongside us through any kind of cyber issues, incidents and training.\u201d<\/p>\n

North Carolina Guardsmen welcomed Moldova Capt. Ion Lascu, a senior officer of the Defense and Cyber Security Section, and 1st Lt. Vasile Petriciuc, a cybersecurity engineer for the Moldova Communication and Cyber Security Battalion. Both officers attended last year\u2019s Cyber Shield event.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe decided to come back here because we have the opportunity to learn \u2026 and to develop skills in cybersecurity,\u201d Lascu said.<\/p>\n

North Carolina National Guardsman Staff Sgt. Todd Webster, a cybersecurity team leader who oversaw Cyber Shield operations, has worked with the Republic of Moldova through the SPP for years. In 2018, he traveled to the Republic of Moldova to assist with their cyber operations and training. When he arrived, Webster discovered that when it came to the cyber world, it was a new territory of trust between the two nations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were very protective of their information and how their systems operated,\u201d Webster said. \u201cThey wouldn\u2019t let us go hands on the keyboard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through the SPP, the partnership between North Carolina and Moldova continued to strengthen.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince then, about two years ago is really when they started making the shift,\u201d Webster said. \u201cThey became much more welcoming and open to allowing us to see their systems and to actually assess their systems.\u201d<\/p>\n

At this year\u2019s Cyber Shield event, the Moldovan officers shared sleeping quarters and a keyboard with North Carolina Guard members.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re pretty much sitting side by side with us and fighting off cyber attacks,\u201d Webster said. \u201cThey\u2019re going to be right on our systems, right on our tools, and hunting the adversaries with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a good relationship with our partners from North Carolina,\u201d Lascu said. \u201cOur colleagues supported us in a lot of activities … in developing our incident center, response center, and skills to create our own defense capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey can trust us and we can trust them,\u201d Webster said. \u201cThey\u2019re not here trying to gather intel on us and vice versa. \u2026 We\u2019re here to work for the same cause.\u201d<\/p>\n

Webster said language barriers were not a problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cTechnology is technology,\u201d Webster said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what language you speak or what country you use it in. It\u2019s all the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cyber Shield wasn\u2019t just about developing expertise on the computer but about building positive relations and sharing small moments not found in a coded program.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe not only did our work \u2026 but we were here together as friends,\u201d Petriciuc said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will continue this partnership because of our experience exchange, our common goals, and at the end we will have a good result,\u201d Petriciuc said. \u201cWe make a good team.\u201d<\/p>\n

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North Carolina National Guardsmen from the North Carolina Joint Force Headquarters and Moldovan officers pose for a photo during the annual Cyber Shield training event at the Virginia National Guard\u2019s State Military Reservation in Virginia Beach June 13, 2024. Cyber Shield is the longest running and largest Department of Defense cyber exercise comprising nearly 1,000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212378,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212379,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212376\/revisions\/212379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/212378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}