NGCP, NICA sign deal to shore up PH defenses vs cyberattacks

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) and the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA).

In his keynote speech at the Malacañang Palace, Marcos said the MOU was a milestone in the Philippine government’s effort to protect the country from possible cyberattacks, particularly on its energy infrastructure.

Malacañang earlier said that the MOU would also ensure the NGCP’s continued service of providing power to communities through intelligence- and data-driven analysis from NICA.

The partnership between NGCP and NICA, Marcos said, would also shore up the country’s defenses “against any possible attacks on our power systems [and] on any other of the elements in our everyday lives that require power.”

Such efforts would require “the exchange of secure information amongst ourselves in soci-