cyber warfare

Countries like the U.S., Iran, North Korea and China have been subjects numerous times when it comes to cyber security, warfare and espionage. While we're not as big and as powerful as those countries, do you think we should also develop a way to defend our country from cyber attacks? The first thing that came to mind when thinking of a possible solution to defend the Philippines against a cyber attack is to have our own cyber army. If we have our conventional military, no matter how meager, to defend us in times of war, why not have a cyber army to defend country from foreign or domestic cyber attacks? According to Wikipedia, cyberwarfare refers to politically motivated hacking to conduct sabotage and espionage. It is a form of information warfare sometimes seen as analogous to conventional warfare and in 2013 was, for the first time, considered a larger threat than Al Qaeda or terrorism, by many U.S. Clarke, "actions by a nation-state to penetrate another nation's computers or networks for the purposes of causing damage or disruption." Compared to conventional warfare, cyber warfare is faster and cheaper. The Philippine government's cyber army can be a mix of civilian contractors, government agents and uniformed soldiers who have undergone years of training in cyber warfare. Read more in our articles including "Should the Philippines build a Cyber Army?" and "PNP-ACG ramps up cyber defense training with GCash".