Lithuania is offering to share with the Philippines the tools and methods it’s built up over decades of countering Russian and Chinese “hybrid threats,” its foreign minister said during a visit to Manila.

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Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys also said he expects more of his country’s cybersecurity and counter-disinformation firms to establish a presence in the Philippines.

“There will be more presence from the ones that are dealing with cyber tools, and also that are dealing with countering different propaganda narratives,” Budrys told Philstar.com in an exclusive interview on July 23.

Budrys noted that several of these firms utilize AI-enabled monitoring systems.

Beyond commercial tools, Lithuania is also prepared to share its operational frameworks for security operations centers, cyber legislation, e-governance infrastructure and digital public services.

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Budrys, who said he has spent close to 25 years in the security sector, said a lesson from Lithuania’s experience is to concentrate the work in a small number of institutions rather than parcel it out across agencies.

“It has to be whole-of-government approach, meaning that everyone is responsible, but you cannot share it around and everyone is doing everything,” he said. “Then it will be at the end too many people in the kitchen.”

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