Incident Response

In June 2026, nineteen Philippine government websites, including those of the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the National Bureau of Investigation, were defaced within a single week by a hacktivist group calling itself "Nullsec Philippines." By the time the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) issued its statement, the damage was already done and the story was already spreading. This is the reality of modern cybersecurity: attackers move in minutes, but most organizations still respond in hours, or days. Manual incident response, a security analyst spotting an anomaly, escalating it through email or chat, waiting for approval, then [...]