The Philippine government must boost its cybersecurity because cyber attacks can hurt the economy, experts said.
MANILA -- The Philippine government should invest in cybersecurity so that the country can remain competitive and maintain growth, a data expert said on Friday.
During the DevCon PRO Summit 2023, technology and data analyst Dominic Ligot said aside from the possible financial losses through hacking, cyberattacks may also affect investor confidence. “Dapat ma connect yung relationship ng cybersecurity at saka business value. Or kung sa country, yung cybersecurity at natin. Parang hindi siya nako-connect. Imagine mo kung mawalan ng tiwala sa atin ang mga , mag-aalisin mga yan,” he said.
Ruel Nopal, who heads the engineering unit of Prosperna, an e-commerce software company, said another problem is that developers are too focused on apps, software and programs, but some of them tend to completely forget about cybersecurity features. “Kulang knowledge natin in terms of how secure our applications, the network. Naka-focus kasi ngayon, especially mga graduates natin, is codes, design, but there is no security involved,” he said.
Nopal said developers and other officials of the government and private companies should be educated on cyber issues. “The best way to combat these types of activities was bring in the best and brightest together and share practical experience. We trained people who were engineers to do work on cybersecurity as well,” recounted Fisher who also held leadership positions in Qualcomm and SAP.
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