Security News > 2022 > October > So, the US, China, and Russia walk into an infosec conference

The Reg attended Singapore International Cyber Week 2022, where officials from twelve countries had an airing of grievances across three separate panels, as if they were seated at carefully arranged tables at a wedding.

"We should stop these actions and come to the table, and talk the way you do here in Singapore in International Cyber Week. I was lucky to be invited. I prefer coming here than to the UN because the US does everything possible to restrict discussions."

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The Czech Republic's deputy minister of foreign affairs, Marin Dvořák, then offered a metaphor of all countries swimming in one pool.

While the Singaporean moderator of the third panel, deputy secretary Alan Goh, seemed keen to take a softball question from the audience, Australia's Feakin navigated Goh instead toward a question on how to build trust when some countries are drawn to offensive cyber capabilities.

Feakin said the majority of countries were building out cyber offensive capabilities, but only a minority were transparent in how it was applied.

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