NATO CIS Services Agency
26 June 2012 SHAPE
Secure CIS Services Provision in NATO - Résumé And Operational Perspectives -
Presentation to AFCEA at SHAPE by Director NCSA
LtGen (DEU AF) Kurt Herrmann
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Outline
• Basic Approach, Mission and Structures
• CIS Support to NATO-led Operations
• CIS Support to Exercises
• Information Assurance and Cyber Defence Services
• Functional Area Services
• Implications of NCS and NATO Agencies Reform
• Lessons Identified for Common CIS Service
Provision
• Conclusions & Outlook
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Provision of Secure End-to-
end CIS services in NATO
CAPITALS
HQ
ACT
NATO
HQ
HQ
HQs
ACO
OPERATE & MAINTAIN
Theatre
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Principles of CIS Support to
Operations
4
Theatre of
Operation
OPS Command
PoP
PoP
PoP
External Resources
Augmentations
CIS Backbone
Central services:
• Network-Mgmt
• Service-Mgmt
• Co-ordination
Resources:
• Personnel
• Static and
deployable
assets
(NATO)
Reach-Back
DCM
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CIS support to
NATO Operations
Military
Committee
OPCON
(for Operations)
SACEUR
NAC
Policy
direction
NCSA DCIS
elements
• DCMs
• CIS Logistic
Depot
Supporting
NATO
elements • NC3A
• NAMSA
• Contractors
Supporting
National CIS
elements
CIS support to
Static HQ structures
SLAs OpPlans/OpOrders
C2 for
NFS
• Nations’
customers
Consul-
tation
• NATO HQ
Brussels
C2 for
NCS
• ACT
• +Sub-
structure
C2 for
NCS
• ACO
• +Sub-
structure
NATO C3
Board
NCSA’s Position
NCSA “as a whole”
(indivisible mission / organisation)
Reach back
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NCSA Organisation
DIRECTOR
NCSA
DEPUTY DIR/COS
Director OPS
OPS
CENTRE
NCSA HQ STAFF STATIC DEPLOYABLE
CENTRAL
FSP
NAPLES
FSP
BYDGOSZCZ
FINCON
LEGAD PAO
COSO
PPC
MPT
BAF
SDD
DOED
COD
SMD
NIATC
LMD
NATO CIS LOG DEPOT
NCCLD BRUNSSUM
NATO CIS SCHOOL
NCISS LATINA
NATO PROG CENTRE
NPC GLONS
NATO SIG RGT
NSR BRUNSSUM
1 NSB
WESEL
2 NSB
GRAZZANISE
3 NSB
BYDGOSZCZ
SECTOR MONS
SQN
NORTHWOOD
SQN
STAVANGER
SECTOR NORFOLK
SECTOR BRUNSSUM
SQN
HEIDELBERG
SQN
RAMSTEIN
SQN
BYDGOSZCZ
SECTOR LISBON
SQN
MADRID
SQN
IZMIR
SQN
NISIDA
SECTOR NAPLES
Technical DIR
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NCSA Area of Responsibility
7 7
OPERATION OCEAN SHIELD
DARFUR
Support
African Union
KFOR
ISAF
Norfolk
Naples Lisbon
EUFOR
Brunssum
NATO HQ
& Agencies
Mons
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DCIS FOOTPRINT
M&S Coy A
B C
D
E
1 NSB 3 NSB
B
C
D
E
A
Coy
M&S
F
Coy
M&S A B
C D
E
F
2 NSB
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CIS Support to ISAF
• Sustained CIS Support
• Coherent CIS Services
• Improved Service Management
• Flexibility and Responsiveness
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Afghanistan Mission Network - Governance -
Poland Denmark
Czech
Republic
Spain
Australia
AMN Secretariat
NATO (AMN Core)
other National Extensions
France (French-AMN)
United States (Centrix-ISAF)
United Kingdom (Overtask)
Germany (DEU-AMN)
AMN Steering
Group
Acceding countries
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CIS Support to Other
Operations
• Maritime Operations – Operation Active Endeavor
– Operation Ocean Shield
• KFOR
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• Military Training and Exercise Plan
• More than 100 Events in 2011
• Focus on Pre-deployment Training/
Exercises
• NRF Related Support
CIS Support to
Training & Exercises
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• System Engineering – System hardening
– Anti-virus
– Forensics analysis
– Advice to projects
• Incident Detection & Response – Intrusion detection
– Incident handling
– Web site monitoring
– Email monitoring
• Vulnerability Management – Assessments and testing
– Security awareness
– Cyber Defence Exercises
DETECT
RESPOND RECOVER
FEEDBACK
PREVENT
Cyber Defence Services
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Service Management
Framework (SMF)
Employment Areas:
• Operational Networks
in Theatre (e.g. AMN)
• Static structure :
NCSA HQ and sectors
Lines of operation:
• Service Management
(SM) Toolset
• Training and Exercises
A
M
N
SMF
Group
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Functional Area Services
JOCWatch
COPIM
JCHAT
JTS Joint Targeting System ICC
NIRIS
JADOCS
Analyst Notebook
NITB NATO Intel Toolbox
iGeoSIT
LOGFAS
IFTS
ICTS
FMV Full motion Video
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Operation and Maintenance of
Functional Area Services
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• Standards for interoperability
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Governance
• Assurance and Validation Testing
• Authoritative Data Sources (ADS)
• Service Level Agreements (SLA)
• Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
• Training
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Robust Network
Structure
• Bandwidth
• IP-based
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Moving Forward …
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Transition 1 Juli 2012
Future NATO CIS Structure
Future Current
C&I Agency
NC3A
NCSA Deployed
NCSA Central
NCSA Static
Others
CIS Group
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Impact of New NATO Command
Structure On CIS
SECTOR
SECTOR, ACT HQ
Sqn JFTC Sq.JWC
SECTOR, ACO HQ
Squadron
Squadron Squadron
SECTOR JFHQ 2
Squadron Sq. Air CC
SECTOR JFHQ 1
Sq. Mar CC
CAOC
CAOC* CAOC
CAOC
NURC
JEWC
NATO CIS LOGISTIC DEPOT
NATO CIS SCHOOL
NATO PROGRAMMING CENTRE
STATIC CENTRAL DEPLOYABLE
CLD, NCISS, and NPC C&I Agency
NATO Signal
Regiment
NSB
DCM DCM DCM DCM DCM
NSB
DCM DCM DCM DCM
NSB
DCM DCM DCM
DCM
DCM
DCM
NCSA HQ
CIS Operational / Exercise
Planning & Support & Control
NATO Central Network Control
NATO Information Assurance and
Cyber Defence
NATO Common Services (e.g. E-
mail, VTC, Address-Services)
Functional Services (FS) for all
NCS- elements & Ops Centres
(LOG FS, OPS FS, INTEL FS, others)
SGT SGT SGT SGT
SGT
SGT
SGT
SGT
SGT
SGT
LC
DCM
DCM
DACCC
AC
NATO CIS Grp
JALLC ?
?
DCM
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• Transfer to Future Structure 01 Jul 12
• Crosswalk of Personnel
• SLAs will Remain in Effect
• Shared Operations Center Concept
• Implementation of New CIS structures Complementary to NCSA Deactivation
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NCS & NATO Agencies
Reform
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CONCLUSIONS
• CIS Services Delivery: Key Functions
under control of NATO structures
• Judicious mix of resources
• Common Service Architecture
• Preservation Synergies and Efficiency
• Federation: From AMN to FMN
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OUTLOOK …
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NATO CIS Services Agency