Yogyakarta, September 8th 2022─Digital Future Discussion (Difussion) was held for the 78th time by the Center for Digital Society (CfDS) of FISIPOL UGM on Thursday (8/9) online. In accordance with the title “Rooted in Security Basics: Digital Hygiene to Avoid Cyber Attack”, this event discussed digital security and presented two speakers, namely Ismail Hakim as the founder of Cyberkarta, and Irnasya Shafira as a CfDS researcher and moderated by Rizka Herdiani who is also a CfDS researcher.
Ismail Hakim started the discussion by describing the stages of the framework in cyber security which includes the stages of identification, protection, detection, response, and recovery. According to Ismail, the detection and response stages are two very crucial stages. “We can invest a lot in protection, but we don’t know when this protection will fail,” Ismail said. This makes the next two stages crucial, but unfortunately, according to Ismail, the two stages are still not running optimally in Indonesia’s digital security.
Not only from the technical side, but Ismail also considers that Indonesia still has challenges in terms of needs and mindset. Among them is user awareness, so that the stages in cyber attacks do not escalate; openness, namely the openness of server managers to the cyber resilience of their servers and openness to criticism; and regulations which, according to Ismail, are very emergency because there is no regulation that can really regulate data security in Indonesia.
Responding to the rise of cyber attacks that have occurred recently, Ismail recommends several preventive actions that internet users can take to reduce the risk of attacks. These preventive actions include: paying attention to the complexity of passwords, using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), knowing the characteristics of phishing, using anti-virus programs, and updating programs regularly.
In line with this, Irnasya introduced a new term, namely ‘Digital Hygiene’ which means the practices that technology users must carry out to maintain system health and improve online security. According to Irnasya, insecurity in Southeast Asia is specific. “Not only cyber incidents that have been conveyed by Mas Ismail, but also disinformation, misinformation,” Irnasya said. This further increases the need for users to practice digital hygiene.