Thailand was chosen as the hub of Asean cybersecurity training at a recent IT ministers' meeting, and tasked with improving the skills of 1,200 trainees of the security-related agencies of 10 countries by 2021. Telmin's consensus came after an initiative proposed by its Japanese partner, which had been advocating for the development of cybersecurity skills for government officials and Asean agencies' staffs since last year. "Cybersecurity skills are a core soft infrastructure needed to cope with increasing threats and to jointly resolve new threats when they spread through the region," he said. Mrs Surangkana said Japan will assign its cybersecurity experts to come to ETDA to train cybersecurity staff at the agency and other Asean officials. In a related matter, Mr Pichet said the government set up the ad hoc National Cyber Security Committee (NCSC) last month to handle cyberthreats.

Source: Bangkok Post December 06, 2017 03:45 UTC