MANILA, Philippines — Cyber defense will be a “common fixture” in the future military exercises of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
Col. Michael Logico, designated spokesperson of this year’s Ajex Dagitpa or AFP’s Joint Exercise Dagat-Langit-Lupa (land, air, and sea) said this during the drills’ closing ceremony in Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City on Friday.
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“We are actually building our own cybersecurity capabilities, ever since in the previous Balikatan exercises and also the Ajex exercises,” Logico said in a chance interview.
“Now, cyber defense exercises are going to be a common fixture in joint exercises like on this scale,” he added.
Logico noted the importance of cyber security in military operations.
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“So when we talk about physical domains, we are talking about the ground, maritime domains, but what is not often talked about is [the] non-physical domains like cyber domains [and] the information subsystems,” he said.
“All of those nonphysical domains will have effects on physical domains as well,” he added.
One of AFP chief-of-staff General Romeo Brawner Jr.’s priorities is the modernization of cyber warfare, proposing the creation of a “cyber command.”
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