Logical Cyber Weapon in National Security: Threat or Requisite? In Indonesia and Australia

This research objective is to show the differences between two countries in facing logical cyber weapon in a form of policies differences which forming unique behaviour and impact towards both countries. The background of this paper is based on the emerging new type of weapon, the intangible weapon; cyber weapon. Many governments regarded this weapon as a non-lethal weapon; therefore, they put less or no effort in enhancing the defense architecture to face the threat; until there is a cyber-incident to be learned from. The term ‘black swan event' used in this paper as the approach to reduce the gap stated in this paper which is the relation between the cyber incident and the government response. The government acknowledgement regarding ‘black swan event' resulting the policy(s) to create a major change in the state's architecture by learning from the major incident that surge the state, in this case, cyber-attack incidents. This paper describes the pattern differences between Indonesia and Australia in responding to the cyber-attack incident as the ‘black swan event' to strengthen cyber Defense architecture and/or establishing national agencies.