{"id":63520,"date":"2024-05-23T15:35:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T07:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=63520"},"modified":"2024-05-23T15:35:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T07:35:45","slug":"govt-private-sector-must-work-in-harmony-to-fight-cyber-threats-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2024\/05\/23\/govt-private-sector-must-work-in-harmony-to-fight-cyber-threats-in-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t, private sector must work in harmony to fight cyber threats in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leaders of Philippine Cybersecurity and Data Protection Communities of Practice attending the ASEAN-Japan Cybersecurity Technical Working Group joint meeting highlight the urgency for all government and private sector organizations to work in harmony together to fight against cyber threats in the Asia region.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA harmonious whole-of-Asia and whole-of-society approach to fight cyber threats in the region has to be orchestrated among government and private sector leaders in ASEAN and Japan, along with other countries in the region,\u201d Lito Averia, President of the Philippine Computer Emergency Response Team (PH-CERT) said. \u201cAsian countries face the same threats, and all countries attending confirmed that their respective government\u2019s digital infrastructure along with Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) are also being attacked constantly by international and even local threat actors,\u201d Averia added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe constantly increasing cyber attacks on government digital ecosystems and CIIs call for nations in the Asia region to establish concrete solutions such as an Information Exchange Network which will serve as a cyber weather station that will receive, verify, then send out threat alerts to everyone that will impacted in the region,\u201d Sam Jacoba, Founding President of the National Association of Data Protection Officers of the Philippines (NADPOP), and PH-CERT Vice President explained. \u201dIn parallel, each country should continue to produce new cybersecurity professionals and to upskill current cybersecurity and information security personnel that are already working in government and private organizations,\u201d Jacoba further said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the Philippines, PH-CERT and NADPOP estimate that the country needs 180,000 trained and validated cybersecurity professionals to proactively and effectively protect the country\u2019s CIIs. Both communities added that a similar number of Data Privacy and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) trained and validated professionals is also needed by the Philippines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat is emerging through these meetings is a regional force for good that will serve as a shield for countries and citizens against threat actors, who are now using AI in their attacks.\u201d Jacoba added. \u201cWe are inviting all active Communities of Practice in the region to collaborate with our regional community, the AJCCA, as threat actors are also organized in their actions. During these times, we truly need a whole-of-region, whole-of-society, and even whole-of-community cooperation to effectively respond to cyber threats.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the Philippines, PH-CERT and NADPOP estimate that the country needs 180,000 trained and validated cybersecurity professionals to proactively and effectively protect the country\u2019s CIIs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":63524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[286,54,2103,96,2727,1656],"class_list":["post-63520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-it-security","tag-security","tag-security-breach","tag-technology","tag-technology-adaption","tag-technology-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}