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A selected group of senior Government Officials will meet in
conference in Colombo on April 2 to address the problem of information
security that is currently on the increase in the world including Sri
Lanka.
Themed 'Information Security' the conference that is scheduled to go
on from 8.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. at the Conference Hall, Sinhalese Sports
Club, Colombo 7 will help the participants to be equipped to contain the
threats to information security.
The conference organized by the Information and Communication
Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) under its Re-engineering
Government program aims at equipping the participants selected from
among Senior Government Officials who are also the Chief Innovative
Officers of assigned areas to face the threats to information security.
The conference will include several informative and lively
presentations aimed at giving participants a succinct and yet full
'carry-home package of thinking' that would include practical
applications enabling their active leadership in promoting information
security.
A senior ICTA spokesman said that since the severity of Information
Insecurity is not sufficiently known to the vast majority of the
internet users of Sri Lanka, the conference would go a long way in
arresting this world-wide menace.
"Information security breaches can affect individuals as well as
organisations and in an interconnected world even the smallest security
incident in one place can lead to more serious attacks elsewhere.
Attacks can occur in the form of illegal manipulation (corruption,
destruction) and usage (blackmail, identity theft) of information and
information systems. Measures for securing information can be physical,
administrative or technical in nature," he said.
"An example of a physical measure", the ICTA spokesman said "would be
a (Closed Circuit Television) CCTV monitoring system, while Information
Security policies and standards would come under administrative measures
and 'Firewalls' based on security rules and 'Intrusion detection
systems' based on anomaly-detection come under Technical measures."
"All Security measures must work in synergy to create a holistic
security environment," he said. |
