Report - Cyber Conscription - February 2021

The Armed Forces play a crucial role as a strategic reserve for the subsidiary support of The armed forces of the studied countries are civilian administrative units and in the event responsible first and foremost for protecting of mobilisation. [...] For the purpose of this paper, the IT support to cyber defence terms “cyber conscription” and “cyber conscripts” are used in the same way as the Denmark is trialling the training of cyber countries analysed use them. [...] number of trained cyber conscripts depend on the requirements of the military, and how far To the individual, cyber conscription offers the can the government afford to increase supply possibility to increase cybersecurity- and cyber beyond the needs of the military and other defence-related skills through training and organisations vital for defence and security practice. [...] Since 2015, both men In Estonia, a significant part of the EDF consists and women must undergo CMS; the annual of a reserve component that is maintained by number of citizens to be trained is 8,000.29 The an annual intake of conscripts who are trained aim is to select the most suitable and the most and later assigned to a reserve unit. [...] The position in which the structure of a computer and, last but not an individual conscript will serve is a function least, be likely to receive a security clearance of the requirements of the defence forces, the at the level of Secret.48 In addition, they must person’s previous knowledge, the results of the pass a test assessing computer skills and basic Cyber Command’s IT test and the interview.