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NATO’s Crossed Swords Exercise Brings AI Agents Into Cyber Operations Training
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NATO’s Crossed Swords Exercise Brings AI Agents Into Cyber Operations Training

Crossed Swords 2026 is a NATO CCDCOE cyber exercise held in Tallinn with more than 250 participants from over 40 countries. It trains synchronisation of cyber effects with kinetic and special operations actions. A new track has participants build, deploy and assess AI agents, on locally hosted AI and OpenAI's Daybreak, with over 20 industry, academic and NGO partners.

TL;DR Reports NATO's Crossed Swords 2026 cyber exercise, which adds an AI agent track and OpenAI's Daybreak to cyber-kinetic training.
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Organisations named here

  • ESET
  • Mandiant
  • Bitdefender
  • Crossed Swords
  • Elastic
  • International Committee of the Red Cross
  • Jozef Kostelansky
  • Locked Shields
  • NATO
  • NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence
  • OpenAI
  • Stamus Networks
  • TryHackMe

Technologies named here

  • Daybreak
  • TryHackMe
  • Bitdefender
  • Elastic
  • ESET
  • Mandiant
  • Stamus Networks

Techniques named here

  • Red teaming
  • Threat hunting
  • Digital forensics

Concepts named here

  • AI agents in cyber operations
  • Critical infrastructure protection
  • Cyber-kinetic synchronisation
  • Human oversight

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