Nations invest in cyber defence

2013-06-03

Helen Martin

Virus Bulletin, UK

Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

New 'cyber army' for Indonesia and CERT for Jamaica.

Indonesia is set to become the latest country to establish a cyber defence force, according to reports from Chinese state news agency Xinhua.

The agency reports that the Indonesian ‘cyber army’ will be manned by specially trained uniformed soldiers and will be embedded within the country’s armed forces.

Indonesia’s state ministries and agencies are reported to have been targeted by more than 36.6 million cyber attacks over the course of the last three years.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Jamaica’s Minister of State has announced that the government is set to establish a Cyber Emergency Response Team to protect the country’s Internet infrastructure.

In addition to developing an infrastructure for coordinating response to threats, conducting incident, vulnerability and artefact analyses, the CERT will also help organizations develop their own incident management capabilities. The CERT is expected to be implemented in December.

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