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Brunei’s Cyber Attack Response Tested In Drill

Bandar Seri Begawan - Brunei Darussalam joined teams representing the economies of the Asia Pacific region in a drill simulating a cyber attack threatening economic and political stability in the region, Malaysian news agency Bernama reported.

The exercise, which is part of the Asia Pacific Computer Emergency (APCERT) Drill 2008, was focused on the effective mitigation on the impact of large-scale cyber attacks and malicious programs propagation.

The Brunei National Computer Emergency Response Team (BruCERT) is a member of APCERT. It was established in May 2004 in collaboration with AiTi, Ministry of Communications.

APCERT said the exercise, held across five time zones, challenged the participating teams' incident response capability in dealing with large-scale cyber attacks involving both local and international scenarios.

The simulated attacks were themed to be deployed by professional cyber criminal groups who trade stolen data or malicious online service in the underground economy.

APCERT said that the online underground economy was growing and the cyber criminal groups were becoming organised and scattered across border, impairing the economic activity and political stability.

Chair for APCERT, Husin Jazri, said this year's exercise was to test the participating teams' communication capability, particularly in their ability to communicate and relay information across physical borders and time zones and to enable effective decision making. It was also to coordinate swift response with the aim of assisting neighbouring economies to reduce the impact of underground cyber attacks, he said in the statement yesterday.

"Cyber criminal groups can hide behind legitimate service providers to add hurdles to investigation and take down of attacks. Strong networking and local presence among national CERTs help to improve information sharing among trusted parties in curbing online crime," Husin said.

"We believe the APCERT Drill has reinforced the collaboration among the participating economies and further streamline the communication framework.

Our hope is that the teams will benefit in terms of testing or proving their procedures in meeting the objectives set for the drill," he added.

The APCERT Drill 2008 was planned and coordinated by the Malaysian Computer Emergency Response Team (MyCERT), CyberSecurity Malaysia, in collaboration with the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT.)

The drill has been an annual event since 2005.

This year the 14 participating teams represented 13 economies in the Asia Pacific region, namely Australia, Brunei, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taipei, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.

APCERT, established by leading and national Computer Security and Incident Response Teams (CSIRT) from the economies of the Asia Pacific region, aims to improve cooperation, response and information sharing among CSIRTs in the region. APCERT consists of 21 CSIRTs from 15 economies. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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