The Philippine military chief says the AFP is subject to hacking attempts ‘almost every day’
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“The Cyber Command will not have that physical territory but it will have the whole archipelago, the whole Philippines as its territory, because it will try to defend the cyber networks of the AFP,” Brawner explained on the sidelines of a forum hosted by Foreign Correspondents Association in the Philippines .
“So far it hasn’t been successful. We have been very successful in warding off, in defending our networks,” said the AFP chief.The plan and the proposal have yet to be presented before the commander-in-chief, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.In the AFP, there are area commands, with units from the different services under its wing, and there are commands that offer support to the whole military.
“We understand that maybe some of them will not be able to cope with the normal recruitment process. For instance, if we require them to do 50 push-ups and so on, what we are after is their skill, their intellect when it comes to cyber,” he said. In nearby Singapore, cyber security is handled by a fourth branch of its military, the Digital and Intelligence Service . Its job is to “raise, train and sustain digital forces and capabilities” to defend Singapore’s peace and security in the digital world.
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