NATO members and a cluster of partner nations took stock of their cyber-defense progress this week, gathering at Poland's Cyber Command outside Warsaw for the alliance's annual Cyber Defence Pledge conference.
Who was in the room
Delegations from NATO countries were joined by officials from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iraq, Ireland, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland and Ukraine, alongside representatives of the European Commission and the EU's external action service. Over two days of talks, the group focused on shielding energy grids, transport networks, communications systems and water utilities from digital intrusion, and examined how private companies might work more closely with governments on the problem.
The Cyber Defence Pledge itself dates back nearly a decade as the alliance's framework for national cyber-resilience commitments. Coming out of Legionowo, participants said the clearest takeaway was less about new technology than about better information-sharing — the kind that turns isolated national defenses into something closer to a collective one.