The Cybersecurity Readiness Benchmark and Operational Resilience Framework for NRENs in lower-resourced APAC economies is an ISIF Asia Fellowship project supported by the APNIC Foundation.
Many smaller National Research and Education Networks in the Asia-Pacific do not know how strong their cybersecurity really is, and have no clear plan to improve. There has been no standard way to measure or compare readiness across the region.
This project builds that measure: a benchmark of 7 operational security domains, a 1–5 maturity model, a Readiness Index for each NREN, and a free self-assessment toolkit with a phased improvement roadmap. It combines a survey, public technical checks, document review and interviews, and was validated with NREN leaders at APAN62 in Auckland. The framework is tested in depth on LEARN, Sri Lanka's NREN.
All outputs are published under a Creative Commons licence for the whole APAC community.