Forensic laboratories have also been established in General Santos City, Legaspi City, Zamboanga City, Davao City and Cebu City to complement the PNP's main laboratory in Camp Crame. Facilities and expertise continue to be strengthened to efficiently and effectively address the challenges in cyberspace, Canapi pointed out. The ITMS supports these efforts by detailing competent IT officers -- now Certified EnCase Forensic Investigators and Examiners, Certified CelleBrite Examiners, and Microsoft Systems Administrators -- in these laboratories. In addition, the PNP is now using CelleBrite Technology to forensically examine mobile phones.

Based on records from CIDG-ATCD, Facebook is where most cyber crimes occur. According to the recent study made by Socialbakers.com on Facebook Statistics for more than 200 countries, http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-statistics, the Philippines ranked number 8th with 29.85% followers. Hackers, spammers, virus writers, identity thieves and other lawless elements follow the social network traffic and take advantage of these technologies for their personal gains.

Thus, the ITMS is urging users of social networks to follow best practices and enforce robust security policy measures religiously and regularly go to the ITMS websites, invitational talks and symposiums for more information.

Internally, ITMS does the same security measures for the PNP. "We ensure that the PNP ICT infrastructure is impenetrable," said Canapi. Its Web Services and Cyber Security Division is responsible for taking care of all the online programs and records of the entire police force and makes sure that they cannot be hacked by intruders.

In fact, in the latest rating of national government websites, the PNP website (www.pnp.gov.ph), a Stage 3 site under the United Nation-American Society of Public Administration index, ranked 91st among 323 government sites. The ITMS monitors this site 24/7 and is rightfully proud of the fact that, to date, it has not been defaced or hacked.