Developing an ASEAN Regional Computer Emergency Response Team

The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (“CSA“) has provided an update on the development of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (“ASEAN“) Regional Computer Emergency Response Team (“CERT“), which aims to enhance collective cybersecurity within the region. The ASEAN Regional CERT will promote and facilitate information-sharing on cyber incident response, and complement the operational efforts by national CERTs in each ASEAN Member State (“AMS“).

CSA has stated that Singapore has been working closely with each AMS to establish an ASEAN Regional CERT, as endorsed under the ASEAN Cybersecurity Cooperation Strategy (2017-2020).

(a)   Singapore has tabled and obtained AMS endorsement of an Implementation Paper and an Operational Framework.

(b)   Singapore will seek the endorsement of a financial model to ensure sustainable funding of the ASEAN Regional CERT. The financial model would support joint training sessions, cybersecurity exercises and networking of AMS’ national CERTs with INTERPOL, and the provision of industry cyber threat feeds to all AMS.

(c)  Following the endorsement, Singapore will work closely with AMS to operationalise the ASEAN Regional CERT.

The ASEAN Regional CERT seeks to enable stronger regional cybersecurity incident response coordination and critical information infrastructure (CII) protection cooperation, including for cross-border CII such as banking and finance, communications, aviation and maritime.

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