The ASEAN Japan Cybersecurity Community Alliance (AJCCA) used the ASOCIO Digital & AI Summit 2026 in Jakarta to press for a step-change in regional cyber cooperation, arguing that AI is simultaneously accelerating digital growth and the risks that come with it. In a keynote titled “Building Regional Cyber Resilience: Collaboration, Capacity, and Connectivity Across ASEAN–Japan,” AJCCA Chairman Rudi Lumanto laid out a case that national-level defenses are no longer sufficient for an increasingly interdependent digital economy.

The Data Behind the Warning

Lumanto anchored his argument in two figures from surveyed respondents. According to the presentation, 87% identified AI vulnerabilities as the fastest-growing cybersecurity risk, while 48% of breaches involved a third party. Taken together, the numbers describe a threat landscape in which the weakest link is frequently outside an organization's own perimeter — a supplier, a cloud provider, a payments partner or an AI vendor.

That framing led to the keynote's central message, which Lumanto distilled into a single line: “Connected economy means connected risk.” As cloud services, AI systems, digital payments, supply chains and critical infrastructure become more tightly interwoven, the alliance argues that shared dependencies demand shared defenses.

Three Foundations for Regional Resilience

Lumanto structured his prescription around three pillars:

  • Collaboration — building trusted relationships and joint response mechanisms across borders.
  • Capacity — ensuring that people and institutions can respond effectively when incidents occur.
  • Connectivity — creating reliable channels for sharing warnings, information and assistance in real time.

The alliance is already operationalizing these principles through its Working Group on Threat Intelligence and its Business Matching Program, which are designed to connect cybersecurity communities, expertise and solutions across ASEAN and Japan. The emphasis on business matching signals that AJCCA sees commercial and community linkages as part of the resilience stack, not a separate track from threat intelligence sharing.

Award Spotlights AI-on-AI Security

The summit also recognized organizations applying AI and digital technologies with demonstrable business impact. Among the recipients, GMO Cybersecurity by IERAE, Inc. received the ASOCIO AI in Cybersecurity Award 2026, with Hikohiro Lin accepting on the company's behalf.

GMO Cybersecurity by IERAE is a member of the Japan Network Security Association (JNSA), itself a member organization of AJCCA — a detail that neatly illustrates the alliance's thesis that Japanese innovation and regional collaboration are linked rather than parallel efforts.

The award recognized an integrated approach spanning two directions of travel: “AI for Security,” which uses AI to enhance cybersecurity capabilities, and “Security for AI,” which protects AI technologies so they can be deployed safely and responsibly.

Inside the Automation Claims

According to information submitted for the award nomination, the company has embedded AI agents into its Security Operations Center (SOC) and Attack Surface Management (ASM) operations, automating vulnerability intelligence analysis, proof-of-concept (PoC) generation and detection signature creation. The nomination reported that these initiatives increased SOC processing capacity by approximately five times and reduced Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) by 50%, without additional headcount.

Separately, its AI-Agent Penetration Testing service uses adversarial AI to probe enterprise AI systems for weaknesses including prompt injection and data leakage. The nomination reported up to ten times broader testing scenario coverage and approximately 60% fewer false positives. The company describes its supporting Responsible AI framework as aligned with global standards.

These are vendor-supplied figures tied to an award submission rather than independently audited results, and should be read in that light. Still, the direction of the claims is notable: automation applied not just to defending conventional infrastructure but to testing the AI systems themselves — the same class of systems the AJCCA keynote flagged as the fastest-growing risk category.

A Regional Stage With Government Weight

The three-day summit drew senior government and regional leaders, including Coordinating Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, the Vice Minister of Tourism, representatives of the Ministry of Creative Economy, senior officials from BSSN, and chairpersons and leaders of technology associations from across the Asia–Oceania region. The presence of infrastructure and security establishment figures alongside industry association leaders underscores how cyber resilience has moved from a technical niche to a core economic policy concern for the region.

Why It Matters

The AJCCA message lands at a moment when AI adoption is outpacing governance across much of Southeast Asia and Japan. The 48% third-party breach figure is arguably the more actionable of the two statistics: it implies that procurement, vendor risk management and cross-border incident notification are now central to resilience, not peripheral. AJCCA's three pillars map onto that reality — collaboration for joint response, capacity for institutional readiness, connectivity for warning-sharing.

For the partner ecosystem, the summit signals a maturing division of labor. Community alliances such as AJCCA and JNSA provide the trust fabric and threat-intelligence channels; vendors such as GMO Cybersecurity by IERAE supply the tooling; governments supply policy legitimacy and critical infrastructure coordination. The risk is that voluntary collaboration outpaces formal mechanisms for sharing sensitive incident data across jurisdictions, where legal and commercial incentives often cut against openness.

Lumanto closed by reframing the objective itself. Cyber resilience, he said, is not about preventing every attack, but ensuring that organizations and economies can anticipate, withstand, recover and adapt. "The goal is not simply to protect individual systems, but to ensure that our region can continue moving forward together."