Southeast Asian cyber-security center opens in Thailand

Patpicha Tanakasempipat, Reuters

 

BANGKOK—A cyber-security center opened in Thailand on Friday to train personnel from countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to help combat cyber threats in the attack-prone region.

 

The idea of the ASEAN-Japan Cyber Security Capacity Building Centre came from a meeting between ASEAN and Japan's ministers in Cambodia last year.

 

About 700 cyber-security personnel from Southeast Asia are expected to graduate from the Japan-designed programs, which include cyber defense, digital forensics and malware analysis.

 

"Every ASEAN member state is experiencing more sophisticated cyber threats, whereas the cyber security personnel are yet insufficient," said Surangkana Wayuparb, executive director of Thailand's Electronic Transaction Development Agency, where the centre is located.

 

Singapore suffered its worst ever cyber attack in July when hackers stole personal information of about 1.5 million people, including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, from a government health database.

 

Earlier this year, Malaysia said it had foiled an attempted cyber heist on its central bank.

 

Thailand is currently drafting cyber security and data protection bills, which it expects to become law by the end of the year. (Reporting by Patpicha Tanakasempipat; Editing by Nick Macfie)

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-09-15

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

Southeast Asian cyber-security center opens in Thailand

Tzzzzz they can't even handle their electronic bank system properly.

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

help combat cyber threats in the attack-prone region

 

Sounds like a good idea, until you remember that most of the governments in this region are authoritarian regimes with their own interpretation of what constitutes cyber threats.

6 minutes ago, Darcula said:

 

Sounds like a good idea, until you remember that most of the governments in this region are authoritarian regimes with their own interpretation of what constitutes cyber threats.

Whereas outside of the region, it's seen as this government themselves who are considered using cyber-threatening against their own population.

 

 

2 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Thailand is currently drafting cyber security and data protection bills, which it expects to become law by the end of the year.

"Expects to become law by the end of the year"..........or the year after or whenever some committee reaches a decision which on average takes about 4 years.

Governmental Thailand 3.0 facing the challenge to catch up to Thailand cyber crooks who have long advanced to Thailand 4.0 +.

2 minutes ago, Cadbury said:

 

"Expects to become law by the end of the year"..........or the year after or whenever some committee reaches a decision which on average takes about 4 years.

Governmental Thailand 3.0 facing the challenge to catch up to Thailand cyber crooks who have long advanced to Thailand 4.0 +.

Did you perhaps mean Govern mental Thailand 2.1 - as we're now on coup number 21?