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Defending against cyber-enabled IP theft
This multi-year project builds awareness about the threat of state-sponsored cyber-enabled intellectual property theft - a practice known as economic cyber-espionage - in emerging economies.
Our website offers analyses and insight on eleven key emerging economies across South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.
What’s the threat?
Read our reports on the threat of economic cyber-espionage around the world
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Try out our survey to see if your economy is vulnerable to economic cyber-espionage!
Explore ASPI's analysis on the threat of economic cyber-espionage in emerging economies and around the world.
In this report, ASPI analysed public records to determine the effects, the actual scale, severity and spread of current incidents of cyberespionage affecting and targeting commercial entities.
Working with researchers from across the Indo-Pacific and Latin America, ASPI has conducted a deep dive into how at risk and prepared eleven leading emerging economies are to the threat of economic cyber-espionage.
Vietnam
Vietnam is seeking to take advantage of digital technology as a means to bolster economic growth and advance in the global value chain. With a still developing knowledge economy, Vietnam might not be a highly attractive target for cyber-enabled IP theft, but, as the country continues to witness significant growth in IP-intensive sectors, it could become lucrative prey for IP-related crimes in the medium to long term.
Malaysia
Malaysia is a leading knowledge economy in Southeast Asia with aspirations to become a global leader in tech and innovation. Having invested in cybersecurity early on, Malaysia has the legal and operational foundations to deal with sophisticated cyber-threat actors and counter cyber-enabled IP theft. Given Malaysia’s position in global value chains and ambitions for technology-driven growth, it’s important that the government continues to invest in cybersecure innovation.
Argentina
Argentina’s knowledge sector, particularly in IT and agriculture, is thriving and holds the potential for rapid growth. However, structural issues are affecting Argentina’s capacity to defend the economy from cyber-enabled IP theft.
Explore our videos and podcasts to make sense of the threat of economic cyber-espionage around the world!
Hacking for Cash: Chris Painter and Justin Bassi
In the first episode of the series, Bart Hogeveen, Head of Cyber Capacity Building at ASPI, speaks to Chris Painter, the first Coordinator for Cyber Issues at the US State Department, as well as Justin Bassi, Executive Director of ASPI and former National Security Advisor to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
Hacking for Cash: Dustin McCormack and Callie Aboaf
In this second episode of the series, Gatra Priyandita, Analyst at ASPI, speaks to Dustin McCormack and Callie Aboaf. Both work as cybersecurity analysts with The MITRE Corporation. MITRE is a US non-for-profit research and engineering company. They talk about the actors behind cyber-espionage campaigns, they unpack this phenomenon of APTs - the Advanced Persistent Threat actors , and how they’re targeting intellectual property and other assets of economic and commercial value.
Hacking for Cash: Francis Gurry, Nigel Corey, and Elizabeth Chien-Hale
In this third episode of the series, Teesta Prakash, Analyst at ASPI, speaks to Dr Francis Gurry, former Director General at the World Intellectual Property Organisation. They discuss the role WIPO plays in IP protection, the historical context of IP theft, and how the digital transformation has changed the way IP is protected.
Hacking for Cash: Nadia Taggart and Anna Aquilina
This week, Dr Gatra Priyandita speaks with Nadia Taggart, Chief Information Security Officer at Western Sydney University and Anna Aquilina, Chief Information Security Officer at the University of Technology Sydney. They discuss the issue of knowledge and research security and the risks of malign foreign interference and cyber espionage. They also explore the biggest threats and risks to universities, and how we can assure that critical and sensitive research data is protected from illegal access and theft.
