President Benigno S. Aquino III has issued Executive Order
No. 189, creating a National Cybersecurity Inter-Agency Committee that will
assess the vulnerabilities of the country’s cybersecurity.
According to the executive order, the increasing number of
cyber threats that put government and commercial information systems at great
risk necessitates the creation of a body that will coordinate government
agencies in preparing appropriate and effective measures to strengthen their
cybersecurity capabilities.
The National Cybersecurity Inter-Agency Committee will issue
updated security protocols to all government employees involved in the storage,
handling and distribution of all forms -- digital, electronic, snail mail, and
others -- of documents and communications.
It will also enhance the public-private partnership in the
field of information sharing, involving cyber attacks, threats and
vulnerabilities to cyber threats; and conduct periodic strategic planning and
workshop activities that will reduce the country’s vulnerabilities to cyber
threats.
The committee will also serve as the country’s coordinating
arm in domestic, international and transnational efforts on cybersecurity.
The committee will be under the Office of the President and
will be chaired by the Executive Secretary and co-chaired by the Director
General of the National Security Council and the Secretary of Department of
Science and Technology.
To serve as committee members will be the respective
secretaries of the Departments of Energy, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Interior
and Local Government, Justice, National Defense, Transportation and
Communications, Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning
Office, and Presidential Communications Operations Office, as well as the
commissioner of the National Telecommunications Commission, the chairman of the
National Privacy Commission, and the executive director of the Anti-Terrorism Council–Program
Management Center.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=807475
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