India hosts first APCERT conference

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India hosted the first-ever Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT) open conference, which saw participation from CERT’s from 22 digital Asia-Pacific economies including those from the US and Europe.

CONTENT:

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) under the aegis of Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology organizing the Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT) Conference from November 12-15, 2017 in New Delhi. This is the 15th Conference of APCERT and first ever conference in India and South Asia and will be attended by 21 economies.

This conference would cover contemporary topics around strategies of CERTs, Technology and Instruments for building trust in digitally evolving economies and best practices for handling cyber security in mobile and social media.

APCERT:

APCERT (Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team) is a coalition of CSIRTs (Computer Security Incident Response Teams), from 13 economies across the Asia Pacific region. APCERT organizes an annual meeting called APSIRC conference, and the first conference was held in March 2002, Tokyo, Japan.

MEMBERSHIPS:

Any CSIRT from Asia Pacific Region, who is interested to furthering the objectives of APCERT, will be allowed to join as APCERT members after meeting all member accreditation requirements.

KEY FACTS:

• The core theme of the prestigious meet was on the response mechanisms in the complex and evolving threat landscape for building trust in digital economy.
• Other issues that were deliberated upon at the event included vulnerabilities of block chain, secure communication in industrial internet, cyber crime in financial technology ecosystem, malicious behaviour in encrypted traffic, mobile security and artificial intelligence.

QUESTION ARISING FROM THIS NEWS:

Q1) write aim and objectives of APCERT conference.

REFERENCE: DNA, PIB, 23 Nov