NATO’S COLLECTIVE CYBER DEFENSE: Article 5 of NATO’s founding treaty is the heart of the alliance, a commitment from NATO nations to protect each other. “Article 5 is: An attack on one is an attack on all,” President Joe Biden said yesterday in Cornwall, before departing England for today’s NATO summit in Brussels. “You remember what happened on 9/11. We were attacked. Immediately, NATO supported us.”

Now, NATO wants to strengthen the Article 5 commitment to respond collectively to cyber and ransomware attacks. “I expect allies will agree to a new cyber defence policy for NATO,” said Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in a pre-summit news conference Friday. “It will recognise that cyberspace is contested at all times and ensure that we have strong technical capabilities, political consultations, and military planning in place to keep our systems secure.”