OREANDA-NEWS. June 09, 2011. Tallinn will host a major conference this week devoted to the new national niche industry, cyber security.

The June 8-10 conference, the third one organized by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence based in the capital, will be opened by President Toomas Hendrik Ilves.

It will cover cyber defence from technical, legal and political angles, focusing in particular on developing cyberforce capability and the technologies, personnel and organizations a state needs to combat cyber threats.

Keynote speakers include German computer scientist Ralph Langner, who has publicized what has ben termed the world's first "cyber weapon", the Stuxnet worm; US special agent Richard LaTulip and American hacker Charlie Miller.