Hong Kong government centralised cybersecurity needed as line of defence, IT experts say after fresh breaches of security revealed
- IT experts say centralised cybersecurity would help prevent errors that lead to breaches of personal information
- They appeal to government to prioritise the creation of a new digital policy office to better coordinate defences against data theft
Hong Kong should draw up policies to centralise cybersecurity protection for all government departments and associated organisations to prevent more security breaches, IT experts said on Saturday after a string of data breaches at major public bodies.
The IT specialists also appealed to the government to speed up the creation of a new digital policy office to consolidate information technology-related resources and coordinate efforts among departments.
Duncan Chiu Tat-kun, a lawmaker who represents the innovation and technology sector, said individual departments worked on their own IT projects and apps and lacked a unified system.
He said the present piecemeal structure had led to diluted resources across departments, which lacked the capacity to tackle cyberattacks on an individual basis.
