Focused on the development of new technologies, Avibras will participate, from October 5 to 7, in the Cyber Guardian Exercise 3.0, Brazil’s major cybersecurity training. The event, coordinated by the Cyber Defence Command (ComDCiber) of the Ministry of Defence, will count with the participation of 350 people from 58 public and private organizations.

The exercise reproduces cyberattacks in critical structures of the country and the participants have the opportunity to practice defence strategies to prevent a national collapse. The areas of Defence and Security, as well as the civil institutions that take part in the training, must work in a cooperative environment, with synergy of efforts, to avoid the interruption of the essential services simulated in the exercise.

The critical infrastructures consist of strategic areas for the country such as synergy services, water, telecommunication, mobility, air traffic and others.

Avibras will participate in the event together with Atech, providing the Air Defence System (SDA) jointly developed by the two companies for this event. The system will allow the participants to practice cyber defence actions in different scenarios with military characteristics.

In April this year, Avibras and Atech provided a similar system during the Locked Shields 2021 event, the greatest cyberwar simulation exercise in the world, for the countries that are part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and other invited nations, such as Brazil. For the Cyber Guardian 3.0 Exercise, the emulated systems will be fit for the Brazilian scenario.

Responsibilities – Avibras and Atech will act together, but with different responsibilities during the exercise.

Avibras will have to ensure to all weapons system of the virtual exercise a safe and resistant operation against the cyberattack of the other teams taking part in the exercise. The weapons system comprises aiming and firing subsystem, subsystem of missiles and ballistic rockets launching vehicle and programming subsystem of guided ammunition.

On the other hand, Atech will have to apply concepts and technologies of integration, governance, sensors, command & control (C2) and broad situational awareness, enabling decision-making in threatening situations, including cyberattack. The C4i receives, filters and collects the information of the radar simulator, classifies the aircrafts track data, receives data from the missiles launchers, treats all the data and sends the information of the hostile targets to the weapons system gateway. In addition, it updates the targets and missiles information at the command and control servers.