The cyber defense exercises between the Philippines and the United States will be expanded in this year’s Balikatan, giving importance to protecting the country’s cyber domain as much as protecting its physical domain.
Speaking to the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines Wednesday, Balikatan executive agent Colonel Michael Logico explained that the cyber domain has “far-reaching implications” into the physical domain, considering that the Philippines’ technology and weapon systems “fully rely” on the cyber domain in order to function.“It is important to also recognize that a lot of damage can be done in the cyber domain.
He also reiterated that such exercises are also being practiced by other countries, and the Philippines will continue to do so even without the aggression of China in the West Philippine Sea.“With or without China, let’s say for example in a parallel universe, China did not exist, we will still be doing these exercises. These are things that nations do,” he said.“The act of doing exercises is also related to one of the implied activities of an armed force.
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