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Foreign Minister Paet focused on the cyber defence sector in light of the outcome of the NATO Wales Summit; a sector for which Estonia has been a spokesperson in the alliance for years. Paet expressed his satisfaction that the Estonian Defence Forces cyber lab will be put to use as a cyber training ground for NATO cyber defence. “It is an important step in helping to develop the cyber defence capabilities of all the members of the alliance and their closest partners,” he added. “The purpose of the exercises is to test the readiness of the alliance and partner countries to resist various cyber attacks,” Paet said.

The Estonian Defence cyber lab has already organized a number of international and high-level cyber training exercises, of which the most important was NATO's largest cyber security exercise, Cyber Coalition 2013 last year and the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre’s exercise Locked Shields.

The Security Jam Conference is a major defence and security policy event occurring every two years in the form of online interactive discussion forums, bringing together thousands of researchers, military personnel, government representatives, and a number of other experts from around the world to discuss current developments in global security. During the 54-hour long event, participants have the opportunity to actively participate in several different forums. Among other things, this year's conference focuses on the future of NATO, the changing security situation in the world at large and the situation in Syria.