APNIC provides Internet registry services and supports cybersecurity capacity development in the Asia Pacific region, initially engaging directly with members through training then expanding to work with CERTs/CSIRTs and policy makers. They have helped establish new national CERTs in countries like Tonga, Papua New Guinea, and Vanuatu through training programs. APNIC also aims to link these CERT efforts with other cyber initiatives by fostering long-term collaboration between technical and policy stakeholders across multiple activities.

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Overview of APNIC’s Cybersecurity
work in the Pacific
Adli Wahid
Senior Internet Security Specialist, APNIC
adli@apnic.net

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Asia Pacific Network
Information Centre
• Regional Internet Registry serving the Asia Pacific
Region based in Brisbane Australia
• Not for profit, membership driven
• Delegate IP addresses and Autonomous Systems
Numbers (ASNs)
• More than 10k Members in 56 economies
• Provide registry related services and products
o Whois Database
o Internet Directory
• Support for capacity development – training, community
events (NOGs), online Academy
“A global, open, stable, and secure Internet
that serves the entire Asia Pacific
community”

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Cybersecurity in the Pacific
• Initially engagements are directly with Members through
training activities – routing, network security, v6
deployment
• Support for community events – PacNOG, PITA events, and
regional meetings
• In 2014, started to expand our security outreach to
CERT/CSIRTs, LEA, Policy Makers
• Understanding context and long term engagement in key

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CERTs/CSIRTs and the technical
community
• National CERTs/ play a key role in
incident handling, coordination and
advisory
• Collaboration between infrastructure
operators and CERTs enhance
security
• Opportunity to contribute to National
CERTs development when
PaCCERT stopped operating at end
of 2015
• Collaboration with APCERT
members, FIRST.org and ACSC

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CERTs/CSIRTs development in the Pacific
• 2016 - First engagement for CERT
establishment was in Tonga
• APNIC Foundation received DFAT support
for three regional CSIRT Training in the
Pacific (2018 – 2019)
• Opportunity to provide technical support,
enable networking, discuss about other
areas in cybersecurity (that is, awareness,
standards, tools)
• Two more National CERTs established in
2018 – PNG CERT & CERT Vanuatu

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Linking CERT efforts and other cyber
initiatives
• Security is a process
o One activity leads to another
o Collaboration / partnership is critical
• Multiple stakeholders – tech, policy,
LEA, youth, and so forth
• Many opportunities to engage beyond
training
o Fellowship support for events, mentoring,
joint projects
o Multiple activities to support different
stakeholders
o Connecting with the regional and global
security communities

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THANKS
Adli Wahid
Email: adli@apnic.net
Web: www.apnic.net