APCERT holds cyber drill to stress-test response capabilities of 32 CSIRTs

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APCERT holds cyber drill to stress-test response capabilities of 32 CSIRTs
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April 6, 2020
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Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) from across Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa have road-tested their incident response capabilities during an ambitious international cyber-attack simulation.

Organized by APCERT – the Asia-Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team – the annual cyber drill tasked 32 CSIRTs with helping a fictional local business respond to a malware infection and data breach, according to a press release (PDF) from APCERT.
However, the APCERT steering committee has emphasized that the drill is a dress rehearsal, not a competition.

“It is an inter border collaborative initiative among the members and partners to test the incident handling processes and communication of each team such as conducting analysis, security advisories, request for shutdown, etc. according to the drill scenarios,” the steering committee told The Daily Swig.
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Twenty-five CSIRTs from 19 Asia-Pacific countries (operating under the APCERT umbrella) took part in the simulation, together with seven from the Middle East (under OIC-CERT) and Africa (AfricaCERT).

APCERT’s core mission – fostering expertise and intelligence sharing between 30 CSIRTs in 21 countries – is critical to bridging capability gaps between CERTS born of differing financial and human resources, and national regulations, said the committee.
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Press Release (PDF - 138 KB): https://www.apcert.org/documents/pdf/APCERT_Drill2020_Press%20Release.pdf

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