the asia pacific computer emergency response team (apcert) today has successfully completed its annual drill to test the response capability of leading computer security incident response teams (csirt) among the asia pacific economies on 16th august, 2023.
the theme of this year’s apcert drill is “digital supply chain redemption.” this exercise reflects real incidents and issues that exist on the internet today.
this drill requires for the participating teams to interact locally and internationally, with csirts/certs and targeted organizations, to coordinate suspension of malicious infrastructure, analysis of malicious code, as well as notification and assistance to affected entities. this incident response exercise, coordinated across many economies, reflects the collaboration amongst the economies in mitigating cyber threats and validates the enhanced communication protocols, technical capabilities, and quality of incident responses that apcert fosters in assuring internet security and safety.
24 csirts from 21 economies of apcert (australia, bangladesh, brunei darussalam, bhutan, people's republic of china, chinese taipei, hong kong china, india, indonesia, japan, republic of korea, malaysia, myanmar, mongolia, new zealand, philippines, singapore, sri lanka, thailand, vanuatu and vietnam) participated in the drill. from the external parties, 11 csirts from 11 economies of oic-cert and africacert participated.
