Sri Lanka participates in APCERT Cyber Drill

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The Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT) has successfully completed its annual drill to test the response capabilities of members’ Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRT). For the sixth time, APCERT Drill also involved the participation of members from the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation – Computer Emergency Response Team (OIC-CERT).

The theme of the APCERT Drill 2017 was ‘Emergence of a New DDoS Threat’, and this exercise reflects real incidents and problems that exist on the internet. In this year’s drill scenario, the participating teams were tasked to mitigate DDoS incidents triggered by a type of malware which has been widely observed in the Asia Pacific region. Throughout the exercise, the participating teams activated and tested their incident handling arrangements. This drill included the need to interact with local and international CSIRTs/CERTs, and victim organisations, for the coordinated suspension of malicious infrastructure, analysis of malicious code, as well as notification and assistance to affected entities. This incident response exercise, which was coordinated across many economies, reflects the collaboration amongst the economies and validates the enhanced communication protocols, technical capabilities and quality of incident responses that APCERT fosters in assuring Internet security and safety.

23 APCERT teams from 18 economies (Australia, Brunei Darussalam, People’s Republic of China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Macao, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam) participated in the drill, and additionally with four CSIRTs from four member countries (Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria and Pakistan) of the OIC-CERT.