ADAPTING COOPERATION TO NEW THREATS
While digital technology has helped to enhance disaster relief, it has also created new vulnerabilities. If coordination is the most important ingredient for achieving mission success in a complex operating environment, the systems that enable coordination must be protected.
This is why the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus’ (ADMM-Plus) Expert Working Group (EWG) on Cyber Security was included in this inaugural iteration of XTR.
A potential breakdown mid-operation to the OPERA system would be catastrophic, leaving teams spread across a chaotic disaster zone isolated and essentially forced to work blind. So while some soldiers were out in the field, others were conducting daily cyber assessments to ensure that systems and networks are sufficiently hardened, especially in the case that there is a malicious cyber actor trying to cause further instability by disrupting the relief efforts.
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