DICT Secretary Ivan John Uy said the department will send an appeal to Congress to restore its proposed P300 million in confidential funds.
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Information and Communications Technology warned that the lawmakers’ move to strip the agency of its confidential funds conveys a “wrong message” that the Philippines is not committed to safeguarding its cyber borders.
“While cyber threats and cyber criminals are increasing and becoming more sophisticated and they have more funds to do so, the Philippines, going against the tide of the rest of the world, is defunding our cybersecurity and is actually announcing to the world that we’re not interested in protected our cyber borders,” Uy said.
“What about our cyber borders?” he asked. “You already saw how our PhilHealth was attacked. And there will be more of these in the coming days and weeks and coming years. That does not alarm anybody?” A Filipino may have been one of the casualties in the attacks on Israel by the militant Hamas group, the Philippine embassy...
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