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Cybersecurity in ASEAN: An Urgent Call to Action
CiscoNetworkingAcademyCybersecurityCourses
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challenges. This makes it difficult for companies to compete on the national, regional, and global
level and reduces the choice of viable and usable cybersecurity technologies to which citizens
and businesses have access.
A tactical approach to overcome fragmentation in the local vendor landscape is the development
of a certification framework for security products, consistent with the EU’s security-by-design
approach. The supply of ICT security products and services in ASEAN as well as in the EU has