Saturday, April 28, 2018

Important for ASEAN to 'redouble integration and community-building' efforts in order to stay relevant: PM Lee

Making this point at the opening ceremony of the 32nd ASEAN Summit on Saturday (Apr 28), Mr Lee added that the ten-member grouping will also need to find new areas and “fresh commitment” to work together.
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/important-for-asean-to-redouble-integration-and-community-10184448
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Ricky Lim · 

ASEAN as a whole - the Economic Community as a Bloc of US$2.3 trillion economy with few hundred million population - will be treated seriously by big Countries with big Economies like China, US, Japan, Korea, India, EU, Australia, Canada, Mexico etc.

If ASEAN Countries operate alone without a big Economic Community - individual Country will be sidelined.

Thus it make Economic sense for ASEAN to be united in Economic front and Security front to make the whole Economic Bloc successful in Economic Integration and Community-building to make ASEAN a vibrant economic bloc.
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Ricky Lim · 

In addition, if ASEAN Countries close rank for mutual Economic Benefits - there will be lesser fricitions among neighbors and differences can be amicably settle - with focus will be on Economic development and Economic growth - where Peace and Prosperity can be fostered for the whole Asia Pacific region.
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Ricky Lim · 
“We need to be resilient to both conventional threats, and also unconventional threats such as terrorism and cyber-attacks,” he said, noting that cyber-attacks are increasing amidst the push for digitalisation.
For one, leaders have adopted a statement on cybersecurity cooperation, which he said “captures our vision for a peaceful, secure and resilient cyberspace.”
He added that leaders have also agreed to launch the ASEAN Smart Cities Network.
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Most cybersecurity attacks by hackers can be traced - if there are cooperation among Countries.

Because hackers can :-
(1) Hide behind firewall - 
and only the Country that host the firewall reveal the IT information about the hackers behind the firewall, it is not possible to nab the hackers.

(2) Hide behind an encrypted tunnels such as IPSec VPN, SSL VPN, IP SSH, HTTPS etc.

(3) Hide behind proxies such as reverse proxies, forward proxies etc.

(4) Host web servers or hackers' server that need the hosted Country's ISP, ASP, Cloud SP to cooperate to pull out the hackers' IT information.

(5) Place botnets, malware, spyware onto unsuspected, unprotected servers etc to launch attacks - which also can be traced if hosted Countries cooperate .

Because all IT activities are logged for eg. in syslog, event logs, system logs, security logs, etc.
And unique IT information which can be uniquely identified can be captured such as mac address, IP address, userid, digital cert, hostid, hostname, URL, phone no., etc.

If there are cooperation among the Countries in the World - virtually most if not all hackers' can be identified and nab.
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Ricky Lim · 
This will help to ensure cybersafety - for eCommerce transactions in digitalisation and promote more economic activities through a regional Digital Economy - without fear of stealing and siphoning of digital monies through the internet.
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