He added that his workplace is planning cybersecurity coaching for presidency networks later this yr.
Tony Wong is the director of the brand new Digital Policy Office. Photo: Yik Yong Man
Wong stated the train would see a “crimson staff” simulate a sequence of assaults on numerous authorities businesses, whereas a “blue staff” would act as community defenders.
A botched software program replace by U.S. tech firm CrowdStrike crashed Microsoft laptop techniques all over the world final week, cancelling flights, disrupting tv broadcasts and inflicting disruption to banks, hospitals and retail shops.
The Digital Policy Office was created Thursday by way of the merger of the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer and the Office of Efficiency.
The authorities stated the brand new regime, introduced in final yr’s Policy Address, would speed up knowledge governance and the event of digital infrastructure.
Wong estimated that town’s coverage bureaus and departments have no less than 3,000 laptop techniques, that are up to date greater than 200 occasions every year, and face a continuously evolving risk of cyber assaults.
Last yr, a sequence of main private and non-private organisations confronted main cyber assaults after hackers leaked private data and demanded large sums of cash.
The Consumer Council was hacked in September final yr, with attackers demanding a $500,000 ransom after breaking into 93 techniques and compromising 11 servers and workstations.
Cyberport, a high-tech enterprise park, was additionally the sufferer of an assault in August final yr, with greater than 400GB of confidential worker data being put up on the market on the darkish internet.
The Digital Policy staff is made up of three divisions specializing in digital authorities, knowledge governance and digital infrastructure.
They formulate insurance policies and encourage departments to use data expertise and introduce modern public providers.
The Data Governance division additionally promotes the sharing of digitized data and the usage of knowledge analytics and functions.
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The new workplace may even strengthen cooperation with mainland China, together with creating methods to boost digital infrastructure and safety, promote industrial growth, and enhance cross-border data alternate and providers.
Wong additionally revealed plans to put in “mini packages” on the federal government’s “iAM Smart” cellular app to permit residents to entry numerous authorities providers by way of one platform.
Wong stated generally individuals must undergo a number of departments to register a single licence.
“Our authorities is structured round completely different departments, however individuals might want whole-of-government providers,” Wong added.
Senator Johnnie Ng Kit Cheong stated it was essential to commonly keep back-up techniques, and governments and companies might think about using a unique model from the first system to minimise the influence of cyber incidents.
But he famous that utilizing a unique system might pose technical challenges and large prices.
Fellow MP Duncan Chew known as on each the private and non-private sectors to develop a number of contingency plans, together with handbook choices, and conduct drills to construct capability to cope with technical breakdowns.
Francis Fong Po-kiew, honorary chairman of the Hong Kong Information Technology Federation, stated knowledge centres needs to be arrange in several districts to make sure public providers will not be disrupted if an influence outage happens in a single space.
Sun Dong, minister of innovation, expertise and business, beforehand stated digitalisation was good for socio-economic growth.
He added that digital applied sciences and knowledge are additionally essential in driving high-quality growth and manufacturing.