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Cyber Security Brunei will be responsible for developing gov't policy on cyber crime, online security.

Memastikan ruang siber yang lebih selamat dan pembentukan Jawatankuasa Kebangsaan Keselamatan Siber dan penubuhan Cyber Security Brunei (CSB) sebagai agensi kebangsaan keselamatan siber Negara Brunei Darussalam antara landskap keselamatan siber yang diterapkan oleh kerajaan ketika ini.

Minister of Transport and Infocommunications Dato Seri Setia Awang Abdul Mutalib bin Pehin Orang Kaya Seri Setia Dato Paduka Haji Mohd Yusof, in his capacity as the Minister-in-charge of Brunei’s cybersecurity, attended Singapore International Cyber Week (SICW) 2020 and the 5th ASEAN Ministerial Conference on Cybersecurity (AMCC) via video conferencing recently.

Brunei has recorded a 39 percent surge in cyber attacks in 2018, prompting the head of Brunei Computer Emergency Response Team (BruCERT) to call for the strengthening of the country’s cybersecurity to achieve its ‘Smart Nation’ plans.

The government will establish a national cyber security agency and is currently drafting new cyber security laws, the minister of Transport and Infocommunications has revealed.