AUSTRALIA’S INTERNATIONAL CYBER ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY ASIA PACIFIC COMPUTER EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM The Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT) is a grouping of leading and national CERTs and Computer Security Incident Response Teams dedicated to the protection of national infrastructure in the Asia Pacific. It is just one example of economies collaborating to build collective incident response capability in order to prevent, detect, analyse, respond, mitigate and recover from cyber incidents. APCERT has an operational focus with objectives to help create a safe and reliable cyberspace in the Asia Pacific through global collaboration. CERT Australia currently chairs the APCERT Steering Committee and, with the other APCERT members, participates in an annual APCERT drill and other capacity building activities. AUSTRALIA WILL: 2.01 Strengthen and expand Australia’s strategic international cyber security information sharing partners and trusted networks 2.02 Strengthen and expand Australia’s network of CERT relationships, especially in the Indo‑Pacific 2.03 Be a prominent contributor to the APCERT community 26