25 February 2022
File No. DOIA 2122-0652
F. Acworth
Em
ail: [FYI request #18384 email]
Dear Mr Acworth
Thank you for your email of 31 January 2022 to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (the
Ministry) requesting the following information under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act):
After reading that New Zealand has been involved a number of international cyber exercises
(Cyber Storm, Cyber Flag, APCERT),
Could you please provide a list of all national and international incident tabletop exercises
and wargames attended by the CERT NZ (or delegates from CERT NZ), along with the date of
attendance, since CERT NZ's inception in 2016. For example, this may include the U.S.A's Cyber
Storm exercises, and any APCERT exercises.
A list of national and international cyber exercises attended by CERT NZ since 2016 are set out in the table
below.
Date
Exercise
31 July 2019
APCERT Drill 2019
30 - 31 October 2019
Exercise Guardian
5 – 7 November 2019
FIRST Regional Symposium – Conference session
11 March 2020
APCERT Cyber Drill 2020
10 – 14 August 2020
Cyber Storm 2020
29 October 2021
PNG Exercise – Observer only
16 - 17 November 2021
GridEx
29 – 30 November 2021
Intensity - 2021’s National Cyber Security Exercise
I trust you will find this information useful.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision. Information
about how to make a complaint is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802
602.
Yours sincerely,
Rob Pope
Director
CERT NZ
