1. The document discusses the importance of cooperation and collaboration between incident response teams and network operators in the Asia Pacific region to address cyber security challenges. It emphasizes that cooperation requires mutual trust and respect. 2. Key aspects of cooperation include mitigation of incidents, sharing insights and best practices, capacity building, and peer support. This improves overall efficiency, capabilities, and maturity of responses. 3. Challenges include the need for timely and coordinated responses, ongoing awareness training, and preserving the spirit of cooperation through continuity of relationships and resources. Diversity and inclusion of new participants is also important.

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Cooperation on Emergency Response and
Cyber Security for the Asia Pacific Region
Adli Wahid
adli@apnic.net

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Incident Response & Network Operators
Community
• Cooperation and collaboration is a central theme
– APCERT, FIRST, NOGs and many others
• Business as Usual - operations & abuses, criminal related
activities and breaches
– Resilience
– Cooperation & collaboration must be sustained
• Pandemic
– Exposes lack of security resilience & human vulnerabilities
• Trust with common goals is at the core of cooperation /
collaboration
– Mutual respect

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Importance of Cooperation
1. Mitigation
2. Sharing Insights / Best Practices
3. Capacity Building
4. Peer Support
Overall improvements – efficiency, capabilities, maturity
Easier said that done sometimes – between private entities

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Mitigation
• Timely response
• Impact reduction
– Dependencies problem
• Coordination & Actual
Remediation
– Capabilities and
Awareness
APNIC Community Honeynet Project: Activities from AP Region June – December 2020

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Sharing Insights & Best Practices
• Translating stories into actions
• Non-documented experience
– What work and what didn’t work
• Tooling
• Highlights
– Threat Intel Sharing
– Working From Home & Security
– Routing Security (RPKI)
• Awareness & Training & Technical assistance
• Tools / Software / Sharing Best Practices
https://www.apnic.net/community/security/resource-certification/

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Capacity Building • The people component
• Never ending cycle
• Support for communities across the
region
– https://nfh.apnic.net
• Virtual engagements
– Not new, but ..
• Opportunity to (re) do security
– Network Monitoring
• Engagements beyond workshops
– One-off vs continuous
Security Monitoring Workshop with BTCIRT Community
Networking from Home

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Peer Support
• Going beyond the entities & formal
relationships
• Friendship & Building Trust
– Value of face-to-face meetings
– Finding alternatives
• Challenges posed by the pandemic
and impact of pandemic
– Stress & other issues
• Ethics FIRST - https://ethicsfirst.org/
FIRST-TC @ APRICOT 2020

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Conclusion
• Preserving the spirit of cooperation is key
for our region & globally
• Requires continuity, resources, drivers and
volunteers
• Going beyond formal relationships
• Diversity, inclusivity and new generation
• United against security challenges

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Keep in Touch!
Adli Wahid
adli@apnic.net
https://www.apnic.net
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