Against cyber crimes:

Sri Lanka completes Asia Pacific annual drill

Sri Lanka completed the annual drill against cyber crimes conducted by the Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT) recently.

The Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Response Team (SLCERT) played the role of Organising Committee Lead. The APCERT led the annual drill to test the response capability of leading Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERT) in Asia Pacific countries.

Themed Critical Infrastructure Protection, the objective of the drill was for participating teams to exercise incident response handling arrangements locally and internationally.

The exercise aimed at mitigating the impact of ongoing internet based attacks thus enabling a better coordination in tackling cyber security incidents of teams in the region.

The coordination network that has been built up within the Asia-Pacific region is a valuable resource to help each other in the event of such an incident. It is encouraging that more teams have participated in the drill this year, while many other teams and organisations worked as observers to learn from this exercise.

The Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Response Team (SLCERT) played the role of Organising Committee (OC) Lead and was part of the Exercise Control (EXCON) team.

Additionally, two SLCERT staff members were active players during the drill while another played the role of 'observer'.