New report warns NATO's data vulnerabilities could cost lives without US fix

A caller study warns that NATO is unprepared for modern integer warfare. Without stronger leadership, particularly from the U.S., the confederation could look superior information risks.

The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) released a survey showing that galore NATO members are failing to modernize their subject information systems.

Although NATO leaders speech astir the value of unafraid and shared unreality infrastructure, astir countries inactive store captious subject accusation successful section servers that are vulnerable to cyberattacks.

The study calls information the "currency of warfare" and urges NATO to amended however it stores and shares subject information.

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President Donald Trump, left, and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, to his right, look connected arsenic Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks during a moving luncheon astatine the NATO leaders' acme successful Watford, Britain, connected Dec. 4, 2019. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

At the moment, astir NATO countries are gathering abstracted nationalist unreality systems. France uses Thales, Germany uses Arvato, and Italy is moving with Leonardo to make sovereign defence unreality services, according to the CEPA study Defend successful the Cloud: Boost NATO Data Resilience.

The U.S. has its ain approach, utilizing Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle to physique a sovereign unreality for the Department of Defense, arsenic noted successful the aforesaid CEPA report.

This fragmented setup is creating large problems. The CEPA study explains that galore of these nationalist systems are not interoperable, which makes it hard for NATO allies to stock quality oregon respond rapidly successful times of crisis.

Although 22 NATO members person pledged to physique shared unreality capabilities, advancement has been slow. CEPA describes a spread betwixt what leaders committedness and what is really getting done, and the process remains dilatory and overly bureaucratic.

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks with the media arsenic helium arrives for a gathering of NATO defence ministers astatine NATO office successful Brussels connected Feb. 13. (AP Photo/Harry Nakos)

Some of the hesitation stems from governmental tensions. 

Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has reinforced his long-standing presumption that NATO members indispensable conscionable their defence spending commitments. 

In aboriginal 2025, Trump projected raising the people supra the existent 2% benchmark and stated publically that the U.S. would lone support NATO allies who conscionable what helium considers their "fair share" of the burden.

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At the aforesaid time, Trump has taken recognition for strengthening the confederation by pushing European governments to boost their defence budgets. 

In March, helium pointed to what helium called "hundreds of billions of dollars" successful caller allied defence spending arsenic impervious that his unit was effective. His medication continues to prosecute successful high-level NATO meetings and has publically affirmed enactment for the alliance’s halfway mission.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has worked to reassure European partners. During an April gathering with NATO overseas ministers successful Brussels, helium stated that the U.S. is "as progressive successful NATO arsenic it has ever been," pushing backmost connected claims that the medication is disengaging.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio addresses the assemblage during a last property league arsenic portion of the gathering of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs astatine NATO's office successful Brussels connected April 4. (Jacquelyn Martin/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

According to statements published by the State Department and reported by Reuters, Rubio emphasized that Trump is not opposed to NATO itself, but to an confederation that is under-prepared oregon underfunded.

Rubio is besides playing a cardinal relation successful U.S. efforts to broker bid successful Ukraine. In aboriginal 2025, helium led nonstop talks with Russian officials successful Saudi Arabia and presented Trump’s presumption for a imaginable ceasefire, according to authoritative State Department readouts and contemporaneous reporting by Reuters and different outlets.

Rubio has emphasized that Ukraine and European allies volition stay intimately progressive successful the process. After a intermission successful U.S. assistance earlier this year, helium announced that subject enactment would resume erstwhile Kyiv signaled statement with the projected model for peace.

Meanwhile, NATO continues to supply assistance to Ukraine done a spot money valued astatine astir $1 billion. This fig is based connected NATO’s ain reporting connected its Comprehensive Assistance Package, arsenic cited successful CEPA’s April report.

The confederation is besides coordinating grooming and instrumentality donations, but the CEPA study makes it wide that efforts are being slowed by a deficiency of unafraid information sharing.

The study points to Estonia arsenic a exemplary for integer resilience. Estonia backs up its authorities information successful Luxembourg done a "data embassy" system, ensuring it remains protected adjacent if section systems are attacked. NATO, according to CEPA, should promote akin strategies crossed the alliance.

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CEPA's study tin beryllium reviewed here.