The particular National Cyber Protection Agency (NCSA) on Wednesday approved the appointment of AVM Amorn Chomchoey as the secretary-general.
It also instructed recently appointed executives to enhance cyber security collaboration and better secure the public from internet threats.
Chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon, the panel on Wednesday endorsed the nomination of AVM Amorn, who also currently serves as the NCSA’s deputy secretary-general, and other executive posts.
AVM Amorn will believe the post within October after Style Prachya Chalermwat finishes his four-year phrase next month.
Lt Gen Patchasak Patirupanont, deputy spokesman for Gen Prawit, said the mouthpiece premier commended the particular NCSA for its work and called within the new appointees in order to strengthen cyber security in state organizations, the private field and among the public.
Style Prawit emphasised the significance of securing cooperation through state agencies, household and foreign, within mitigating the risk from cyber threats, stated Lt Gen Patchasak.
The particular board also upon Wednesday acknowledged the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the NCSA, the Royal Thai Armed Forces (RTARF) and Huawei Technologies Thailand.
It also approved MoU drafts to become signed with Thai and foreign organizations on cyber protection cooperation to safeguard critical infrastructure.
These agreements may promote exchanges info on cyber safety and best practices along with research and human resources development, said Lt Gen Patchasak.
The NCSA, meanwhile, said it had detected 138 malicious incidents from April 1 in order to July 31 this year, mostly related to on-line gambling and fraudulent schemes. All the web sites involved were power down.
Earlier, the NCSA stated it would expand the particular enforcement of its regular framework of protection requirements from the present 60 organisations of critical information facilities (CII) to 120 by the end of next year.
The framework includes the software and operating systems that will state agencies plus enterprises under 7 categories of CII organizations must comply with.