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2025 China Cybersecurity Week Hong Kong Sub-forum explores Hong Kong's cybersecurity trends (with photos)
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     The 2025 China Cybersecurity Week Hong Kong Sub-forum organised by the Digital Policy Office (DPO) and co-organised by the Cyber Security and Technology Crime Bureau of the Hong Kong Police Force, the Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation Limited and the Hong Kong Cybersecurity Professionals Association concluded today (September 19). It brought together over 400 experts and business leaders from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), who exchanged views on various topics such as emerging threats in cybersecurity and the latest cybersecurity defence technologies, jointly exploring Hong Kong's cybersecurity trends.
 
     The Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry, Professor Sun Dong, officiated at the forum. Delivering the welcoming remarks, Professor Sun said that the country attaches great importance to cybersecurity and digital economy development. As a leading global international financial, trade and information hub, Hong Kong has been keeping abreast of the national development and strategic deployment, and is committed to promoting the innovations and applications of cybersecurity technologies, striving to strengthen the digital protection capabilities of critical infrastructure. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government is gradually building an open, diverse and innovative cybersecurity ecosystem, laying a solid foundation for Hong Kong's high-quality development. He said that the HKSAR Government will continue to closely monitor and draw reference from the latest developments of technology applications, data protection and cybersecurity from the country and different places in the world to optimise the cybersecurity ecosystem and promote digital transformation. Hong Kong will also leverage its unique advantages of having connections to both the Mainland and the world, play the roles of "super connector" and "super value-adder", and actively integrate into the national and GBA innovation and technology (I&T) development. The city will collaborate with the Mainland and international partners to foster more innovative co-operation and contribute to the I&T development and digital construction of the country and Hong Kong.
 
     The Commissioner for Digital Policy, Mr Tony Wong, delivered a keynote speech on the key strategies and measures of the HKSAR Government to ensure the security of local cyber ecosystem. He stressed that "security is the prerequisite for development, and development is the cornerstone of security". Only by ensuring secure digitalisation can the development of the digital economy and smart city be accelerated. Mr Wong stated that several major events will take place in Hong Kong in the second half of this year, including the 15th National Games, and the eighth-term Legislative Council general election, etc. The DPO will focus on strengthening cybersecurity protection for major events, reinforcing protective measures for digital infrastructure, enhancing cybersecurity monitoring, threat intelligence sharing and analysis, and conducting regular cybersecurity attack and defence drills to comprehensively improve the threat detection, defence and response capabilities of relevant systems and teams. These efforts aim to ensure the safe and stable operation of Hong Kong's digital infrastructure and government information systems during these major events.
 
     The 2025 China Cybersecurity Week Hong Kong Sub-forum aims to echo the China Cybersecurity Week. The DPO has joined forces with industry stakeholders and organised the 2025 Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign with the theme "Let's Secure as we Digitalise". The Campaign includes a series of local activities, such as the Hong Kong Sub-forum, the Cybersecurity Summit, and cybersecurity instant messaging apps sticker design contest to promote technical professional exchanges and raise cybersecurity awareness across all sectors of society.
 
Ends/Friday, September 19, 2025
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The Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry, Professor Sun Dong, speaks at the 2025 China Cybersecurity Week Hong Kong Sub-forum today (September 19).
The 2025 China Cybersecurity Week Hong Kong Sub-forum concluded today (September 19). Photo shows the Secretary General of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Mr Wang Songmiao (first row, fifth right); Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Professor Fang Binxing (first row, fourth right); the Deputy Director General of the Cybersecurity Coordination Bureau of the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, Mr Tu Shouzhong (first row, fourth left); the Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry, Professor Sun Dong (first row, fifth left); the Commissioner for Digital Policy, Mr Tony Wong (first row, third left); the Chairman of Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation Limited, Mr Simon Chan (first row, third right); the President of the Hong Kong Cybersecurity Professional Association, Dr Rocky Cheng (first row, first left), and other officiating guests.
The 2025 China Cybersecurity Week Hong Kong Sub-forum concluded today (September 19). Photo shows the Secretary General of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Mr Wang Songmiao (fourth left); Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Professor Fang Binxing (fifth right); the Deputy Director General of the Cybersecurity Coordination Bureau of the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, Mr Tu Shouzhong (third left); the Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry, Professor Sun Dong (fifth left); the Commissioner for Digital Policy, Mr Tony Wong (second left); the Chairman of Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation Limited, Mr Simon Chan (third right); the President of the Hong Kong Cybersecurity Professional Association, Dr Rocky Cheng (first left), and other officiating guests.
The Commissioner for Digital Policy, Mr Tony Wong, delivers a keynote speech at the 2025 China Cybersecurity Week Hong Kong Sub-forum today (September 19).