APNIC Services Director Karla Skarda presents on the importance of Internet resilience at the PITA Strategy Forum 2023, held in Suva, Fiji from 17-20 October 2023.

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Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
A global, open, stable and secure Internet that
serves the entire Asia Pacific community

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• two types of organization
o Minimum effort or ad-hoc security
o Those vulnerable to a lapse in security
• Security is a state
o Secure today but tomorrow is a different
story
• Security is a Supply Chain
o Your security is my security (that is,
customers’ data / services)
You are as
vulnerable as your
weakest link

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Technology advancement is good.
But the more inter-connected we are, more
devices are connected, the more risk we
create. How do we make sure we continue
to mitigate instead of focusing on
remediation?

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• Organizational science and psychological
safety
• Positive reward systems that encourages
everyone to get involved
• Make it visible – think about building sites
and manufacturing plants

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Let’s celebrate our experts
Let’s build in a CULTURE of
security, where everyone is
aware of how we are doing as a
community or a business, just
like your local law enforcement
stats or those old signs at big
building sites or manufacturing
plants.

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7. Global
Open
Stable
Secure