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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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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.
Brazil
Brazil is the largest economy in Latin America and has ambitions to become a major knowledge economy. Given the promises of its innovation sector, however, there are still gaps in its capacity to address the threat of cyber-enabled IP theft.
India
The Indian economy is transforming into a knowledge-based economy. That’s evident from the increasing number of hard IP registrations, such as patents. The Indian Government has also placed a strong emphasis on supporting the digital sector, as it sees this sector playing a main role in driving India’s growth. However, India shows a moderate preparedness to respond to the threat of cyber-enabled IP theft.
The Philippines
The Philippines has made significant progress in advancing policy frameworks, such as the National Cybersecurity Plan 2022, to tackle cyber threats. However, enforcement and implementation are far from solid. Major factors, such as insufficient funding, slow interagency cooperation and the inadequacy of the cybersecurity workforce, stifle the government’s ability to deliver its on-paper commitments. The lack of a capable cybersecurity workforce also hamstrings the Philippines’ ability to conduct effective digital forensics or attribute cyber-enabled operations to known actors, such as China and North Korea.
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.
