From the frontline: The cybersecurity challenges amid rising AI adoption
From the frontline: The cybersecurity challenges amid rising AI adoption
Publish Date: 2026-05-23 12:05:00
Source Domain: www.manilatimes.net
AS AI starts to shape what people buy, how platforms run, and how decisions are made, gaps in accuracy, consistency, and accountability become harder to control.
At the same time, cybersecurity is gaining heightened traction in the face of the growing use of AI in the Philippines and the wider push for digital transformation.
Speaking to The Manila Times, Jan Chavez Arceo, the National Security Fellow of the Philippine Council for Foreign Relations, articulated on timely matters pertaining to rising AI adoption in the country, the advantages and risks of technological innovation, and the responses to AI-driven challenges across industries, and even across the region.
The Manila Times (TMT): What are the latest cybersecurity risks, especially those with respect to the rise of AI-driven threats? What would be the top AI-related threats in the Philippines or even in Southeast Asia?
Jan Chavez Arceo (Jan): Intelligence gathered when it comes to cyber threats, especially with the Philippines reveal distributed denial of service attacks, phishing, smishing, and some very malicious software or malware are still at the top of the threat ladder. About 2 million cyberattacks are recorded daily and these are the monitored ones.
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For this year, particularly, we have seen a surge of a number of attacks that leads to data infiltration. We have been monitoring a lot of attempts at data infiltration. It started last year when we were preparing for the Asean Summit chaired by the Philippines. I also have to mention that that the issues with regards to our territories is also a major factor in…
