About Cyber Defence CentreNATO Centres of Excellence (COEs) are nationally or multi-nationally funded institutions that train and educate leaders and specialists from NATO member and partner countries, assist in doctrine development, identify lessons learned, improve interoperability, and capabilities and test and validate concepts through experimentation. They offer recognised expertise and experience that is of benefit to the Alliance and support the transformation of NATO, while avoiding the duplication of assets, resources and capabilities already present within the NATO command structure.Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of ExcellenceCCDCOE_ae84d6fa-5593-11e8-90b9-0b0566f45d45The NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence supports its member nations and NATO with cyber defence expertise in the fields of technology, strategy, operations and law. The NATO CCD COE – the home of the Tallinn Manual 2.0 - is a multinational and interdisciplinary hub of cyber defence expertise. The Centre organises the world's largest and most complex international technical cyber defence exercise Locked Shields and the annual conference on cyber conflict, CyCon. The heart of the Centre is a diverse group of experts – researchers, analysts, trainers, educators – from 20 nations. The mix of military, government and industry backgrounds means the NATO CCD COE provides a unique international 360-degree look at cyber defence.NATO CCDCOE SponsorsAs of 2017, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States are signed on as Sponsoring Nations of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. Austria and Finland have become Contributing Participants and Sweden is well on its way of doing the same. The Centre is staffed and financed by member nations and is not part of NATO's military command or force structure.BelgiumCzech RepublicEstoniaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyLatviaLithuaniaNetherlandsPolandSlovakiaSpainTurkeyUnited KingdomUnited StatesAustriaFinlandSwedenCCDCOE Senior FellowsSenior Fellow is an honorary title for a highly accomplished and respected senior scholar or practitioner involved with a major or long-term project of the Centre.Jean-François AgneessensJean-François Agneessens is a cyber security professional from the NATO Computer Incident Response Capability Technical Centre (NCIRC TC) for the last 10 years and has built his expertise in the field of security event log collection, normalization and correlation. He later moved to the NATO Cyber Defence Rapid Reaction Team for 4 years and now oversees the management and configuration of NATO Communication and Information Agency’s centrally managed security capabilities. Mr Agneessens spent his early career life within the Belgian Army in engineering secure military networks. His current area of interests are in the fields of big data, information visualization and blockchain technology. Mr Agneessens holds a Master Degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Belgian Royal Military Academy as well as several technical and managerial cyber security certifications.Wolff Heintschel von HeineggProfessor Heintschel von Heinegg holds the Chair of Public Law at the Europa-Universität Viadrina in Germany. In the academic year 2003/2004 he was the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law at the U.S. Naval War College and he currently holds that position for the academic year 2012/2013. Since 2007 he is a member of the Council of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo, Italy and since May 2012 he is the Vice-President of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War. Professor Heintschel von Heinegg has been a member of several groups of experts working on the current state and progressive development of international humanitarian law, including the San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea, Manual on Air and Missile Warfare and the Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare. He is a widely published author of articles and books on public international law and German constitutional law. Prof. Heintschel von Heinegg was a key contributor to the Tallinn Manual project as a member of the International Group of Experts as well as the Editorial Committee. He has agreed to extend his commitment to the Centre by becoming one of the four external experts on the Tallinn 2.0 project. Prof. Heintschel von Heinegg has also been an invited speaker at CyCon and the International Law of Cyber Operations Seminar.Michael N. SchmittProf. Schmitt is a renowned international law scholar who, after a successful 20-year career in the United States Air Force, occupied the positions of the Dean of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies and Chair of Public International Law at Durham University. He is currently the Director of the Stockton Center for the Study of International Law at the United States Naval War College and Professor of Public International Law at the University of Exeter. Prof. Schmitt was among the first to publish works on the interplay of cyber operations and international law already in the late 1990s. He is a widely referenced expert and the author of several important approaches to the interpretation of international law in the cyber context. Prof. Schmitt served as the Director of the Tallinn Manual project and as of 2013, has made a following three-year commitment to the Centre to direct Tallinn 2.0 project, the follow-on project of the Tallinn Manual. Prof. Schmitt is a regular invited speaker at CyCon and through the United States Naval War College, also cooperates with the Centre in conducting the International Law of Cyber Operations Seminars at NATO School in Oberammergau, Germany.Sean WattsProf. Watts teaches U.S. Constitutional, Criminal, and International Law courses at Creighton University Law School in Omaha, Nebraska. He is also a reserve faculty member assigned to the Department of Law at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Prior to teaching, Prof. Watts served in a variety of legal assignments as a Judge Advocate and as an Armor Officer in a United States Army tank battalion. Recently, he served as a defense team member at the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia. Prof. Watts was a key contributor to the Tallinn Manual project as a member of the International Group of Experts as well as a Legal Group Facilitator. He has agreed to extend his commitment to the Centre by becoming one of the four external experts on the Tallinn 2.0 project. Prof. Watts has also been an invited speaker at CyCon and the International Law of Cyber Operations Seminar.To be the main source of expertise in the field of cooperative cyber defence by accumulating, creating, and disseminating knowledge in related matters within NATO, NATO nations and partners._ae84d7fe-5593-11e8-90b9-0b0566f45d45To enhance the capability, cooperation and information sharing among NATO, NATO nations and partners in cyber defence by virtue of education, research and development, lessons learned and consultation._ae84d8a8-5593-11e8-90b9-0b0566f45d45Cyber Defence ExpertiseSupport member nations and NATO with cyber defence expertise in the fields of technology, strategy, operations and law._ae84d93e-5593-11e8-90b9-0b0566f45d451_ae84d9e8-5593-11e8-90b9-0b0566f45d45Locked ShieldsOrganise the Locked Shields cyber defence exercise._ae84da7e-5593-11e8-90b9-0b0566f45d452_ae84db1e-5593-11e8-90b9-0b0566f45d45CyConOrganise the annual conference on cyber conflict._ae84dbd2-5593-11e8-90b9-0b0566f45d453_ae84dc72-5593-11e8-90b9-0b0566f45d452018-05-11https://ccdcoe.org/about-us.htmlOwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net