About.

Welcome

Welcome to the portal of the the NCIA’s NATO Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) - NATO’s first line of cyber defence. The NCIA NATO Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is responsible for the full lifecycle of NATO Cyber Security activities, designing, implementing and operating:

  • Scientific and technical expertise
  • Supporting Acquisition, Maintenance and Sustainment
  • Conducting Operations and Incident Management

Mr. Luc Dandurand, Chief NCSC

Mission

To strengthen the Alliance through connecting its forces, the NCIA delivers secure, coherent, cost effective and interoperable communications and information systems and services in support of consultation, command & control and enabling intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, for NATO, where and when required. It includes IT support to the Alliances’ business processes (to include provision of IT shared services) to the NATO HQ, the Command Structure and NATO Agencies.

What we do

Combating Cyber Attacks - the Agency’s Cyber Security Centre is NATO’s first line of cyber defence. It operates cyber defence capability development, providing integrated cyber defence 24/7, year round. The NCIA NATO Cyber Security Centre is also responsible for planning and executing all lifecycle management activities, including subject matter expertise, research and development, software development, acquisition and operations and maintenance.

NATO Communications and Information Agency Mission

Connecting Forces

The NATO Communications and Information (NCIA) was established on 1 July 2012 as a result of the merger of the NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency (NC3A), the NATO ACCS Management Agency (NACMA), the NATO Communication and Information Systems Services Agency (NCSA), the ALTBMD Programme Office and elements of NATO HQ ICTM. The establishment of the Agency is part of a broader NATO reform. The NCIA "connects forces, NATO and Nations"- it is NATO's IT and C4ISR provider, including cyber and missile defence. The NCIA is a key pillar of NATO Secretary General's Smart Defence and Connected Forces initiatives; Supporting NATO operations is our top priority. The NCIA is led by General Manager Ludwig DeCamps and is part of the NATO Communications and Information Organisation.

General Manager’s Vision

By 2026, we will be a trusted partner to the NATO enterprise in the efficient, timely, and cost-effective delivery of communications and information systems (CIS) capabilities and services across the Alliance. We will be agile and adaptable to support and enable NATO’s own changing course, and in doing so, we will execute our mission at the speed of relevance and to the satisfaction of our strategic partners and customers. We will institutionalize a culture of delivering value. Our staff will have a keen awareness of and sense of accountability for the value they bring to the Alliance. Our leaders will promote efficiency and decision-making that enables our talented staff to deliver. Through excellence in delivery and transparent communication, our customers and strategic partners will understand the Agency’s value proposition as NATO’s principal C3 capability deliver and CIS service provider for the Alliance. Our utmost concern remains our support to the Alliance’s operational commitments. As such, we will prioritize support to current NATO missions, but we will also be able to adapt and react quickly to new operational demands and provide support across the full spectrum of operations and missions in support of NATO’s core tasks.

Charter Mission

  • Deliver C3 capabilities to our requirements holders, whilst ensuring their coherence and interoperability in compliance with agreed NATO architectures;
  • Ensure provision of secure CIS services to our customers;
  • Deliver capabilities and provide services other than C3/CIS to NATO and nations, as approved by our ASB.

ASB Expectations on us to deliver against four focal areas:

  1. Strengthen NCI Agency Core Business
  2. Adaptive Support to NATO Core Tasks
  3. Strengthen Cyber Security and Cyber Resilience
  4. Enhancement of Digital Modernization.

Strategic Goals:

  1. Excellence in delivery. Our success is weighed against how we fulfil the demands and requirements of our customers; when our projects and services fall short of target, we fundamentally fall short in our mission.
  2. Support NATO’s ambitious agenda. The speed of technological change has never been higher, and delivery for today must be adaptable to ensure success for tomorrow.
  3. Hire, train and retain the best. Delivering success depends upon having the right personnel with the right skillsets, experience and motivation in the right place at the right time, hosted in modern, secure and sustainable facilities.
  4. Strong and lasting partnerships across the NATO enterprise. Our best success comes when we work together with our strategic partners in an environment of trust, transparency and close cooperation.