# @cyber.queen_ on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-12-04T05:34:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Venicia Solomons ✨ (@cyber.queen_) — https://gondola.cc/cyber.queen_

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You Guys!!! We made it to NATO. 🇪🇺 I’m officially A NATO Creator and have joined the 2025 NATO Cyber Coalition exercise! 

Day 1 was jam packed a few things blew my mind and I was able to ask the NATO cyber experts so many questions and of course it’s filmed and coming soon! 

We stepped inside CR14, NATO’s cyber range in Estonia 🇪🇪 , basically a digital shooting range where you’re allowed to break things on purpose so we can keep the real world running when it matters.

Here’s what blew my mind today👇🏽
💡Cyber readiness can’t be theoretical. This is where policy becomes practice. Nations don’t just “talk” cyber, they plug into a live environment, run real missions, and see what actually breaks.

29 NATO nations, ~1300–1500 participants all training together, not competing, but focusing on the 3 C’s: collaboration, coordination, cooperation.

We saw scenarios on:
• Cyber attacks on power grids & critical infrastructure 
• “Ghost in a backup”, when even your backups are compromised
• Space & satellites, how one cyber attack in space can disrupt planes, ships, GPS and even daily life on the ground
• VCISC, a virtual incident support capability where one nation under cyber crisis can call all 31 others for help in real time.

Estonia’s National Cyber Security Center shared that last year they had 6,312 cyber incidents with impact… and almost 70,000 attacks in total. This year they’re already close to 9,000 with impact. Most of it? Cybercrime, not “Hollywood-style” spies.

💡Defenders here literally wake up ministers and prime ministers in the middle of the night when something serious hits. Cyber is 24/7, not 9–5.

What really hit me:
Cyber is now a domain alongside land, air, sea and space, but it’s powered by people, partners and basic cyber hygiene. Your router password. Your MFA. Your phishing awareness. It all scales up into national resilience.

This is what #ProtectTheFuture looks like in real life nations, industry, military and civilians all trying to keep the lights on, the heat running, the comms online and our people safe.

So excited for day 2! Let me know if you have questions for NATO cyber teams 👇🏽

#cybercoalition2025 #protectthefuture

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