Reuters, 16/06 13:14 CET
BERLIN (Reuters) – A major cyber attack could trigger a collective response by NATO, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview published by Germany’s Bild newspaper on Thursday.
“A severe cyber attack may be classified as a case for the alliance. Then NATO can and must react,” the newspaper quoted Stoltenberg as saying. “How, that will depend on the severity of the attack.”
He spoke after a decision this week by NATO ministers to designate cyber as an official operational domain of warfare, along with air, sea, and land.
In 2014 the U.S.-led alliance assessed that cyber attacks
could potentially trigger NATO’S mutual defence guarantee, or Article
5. That means NATO could potentially respond to a cyber attack with conventional weapons, although the response would be decided by consensus.
The NATO chief told Bild that the alliance needed to adjust to the increasingly complex series of threats it faces, which is why NATO
members have agreed to defend against attacks in cyberspace just as
they do against attacks launched against targets on land, in the air and
at sea.
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Source: euronews.
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