ASEAN and Australia need to work out practical ways to cooperate on cyber security in the maritime industry.
Editor’s Note: The 2024 ASEAN-Australia Special Summit Maritime Cooperation Forum was held last week in Melbourne. This article is part of the ‘Blue Security’ project led by La Trobe Asia, University of Western Australia Defence and Security Institute, Griffith Asia Institute, United States Studies Centre, UNSW Canberra and the Asia-Pacific Development, Diplomacy and Defence Dialogue (AP4D). Views expressed are solely of its author/s and not representative of the Maritime Exchange, the Australian Government, or the collaboration partner country government.
Fifty years after Australia became ASEAN’s first dialogue partner in 1974, ASEAN has become critical to Australia’s interests with cooperation in key priority areas, including maritime security, trade and development, cyber security, and sustainable development. Among others, cybersecurity in the maritime industry is a growing concern for Australia and ASEAN.
Both maritime security and cybersecurity have been considered areas of cooperation in the Plan of Action to Implement the…
