The KYHA exercises help participants enhance their technical skills and collaboration in complex and large-scale cybersecurity incident scenarios.
“The training highlights the importance of collaboration and regular practice, even under normal conditions. Well-defined processes and operational guidelines are essential and must be kept up to date. Only practice realises their significance. The wellbeing services county of Kymenlaakso found the exercise very useful, and we received many areas for development to take home”, says Matti Ahola, Chief Information Officer of the wellbeing services county of Kymenlaakso, who participated in the exercise.
As part of the exercise scenario, cyber attacks were targeted at technical systems used in healthcare, which were modelled on the RGCE (Realistic Global Cyber Environment) cyber exercise environment. Systems that were the target of cyber attacks in this exercise included various patient information systems, hospital pharmacies and home care systems.
“Our RGCE cyber range has been developed to meet the requirements of different domains through RDI activities. This national exercise in healthcare is a good example of how the results of research and development activities can be utilised in national-level training activities”, says Tero Kokkonen, Director of Jamk’s Institute of Information Technology.
National Cyber Exercise is part of the Finnish Comprehensive Security Model
Cyber exercises strengthen the ability to respond to real-life cybersecurity incidents. Competence and cooperation ensure the functioning of society’s vital functions and public services.
