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CIOs’ confab ensures information security
A representative group of senior government officials met in
conference in Colombo recently to address the problem of information
security that is currently on the increase in the world including Sri
Lanka.
Themed “Information Security” the conference was held from 8.30 a.m.
to 4.30 p.m. in Colombo on Thursday.
The objective of the conference organised by the Information and
Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) under its
Re-engineering Government program was to equip 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 included several informative presentations as well as
vendor 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.
Welcoming the participants and introducing the theme of the
conference ICTA’s Program Director -Re-engineering Government - Wasantha
Deshap- riya said that it was a great opportunity that the conference
offered for all participants to meet one another with the same
professional objective in a manner they could be exposed to the latest
thinking on the subject and to exchange views on how to face up to the
current state where concomitant with the removal of restrictions to
information there is also a serious threat to misappropriation and
destruction of information.
ICTA’s Program Director and Legal Advisor Jayantha Fernando gave a
comprehensive overview of the legal aspects of Information Security
showing the development of legal measures of safeguards against
computer-based crimes running parallel to the advancement in computer
technology and its wider use.
SLCERT (Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Response Team) Information
Security Consultant Lakshman Soysa presenting a survey of Information
Security said that information security breaches could affect
individuals as well as organisations and in an interconnected world even
the smallest security incident in one place could 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.
An example of a physical measure 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,” Lakshan
emphasised.
TechCart CEO Dr.Shanta Fernando in his presentation on “Information
Security and Business Continuity Management” gave a step-by-step
explanation on how information security could be achieved at the desired
level.
While ICTA’s Program Manager - Re-engineering Government Aunuruddha
Pebotuwa took the participants to a pragmatic view on ‘Securing ICT
Systems in the Government’, CISSP (Certified Information Security
Systems Professional) Information Security Consultant Dilan Walagampaya
in his presentation prevailed upon the audience on the need of
classification for information security and explained, inter alia, the
classification process.
Next Generation Networks Standardization Forum 2009 :
Chief Executive Officer of Hutchison Telecommunications Lanka (Pvt)
Ltd. Archie Man presenting the Hutch connections to Director
General Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL)
Priyantha Kariyapperuma. |
Hutchison Telecommunications Lanka (Pvt) Ltd, extended its support to
the “Next Generation Networks Standardization Forum 2009” by granting
mobile connections to all the visiting delegates.
The event is scheduled to take place from today till April 10 in
Colombo and will be hosted by the Telecommunications Regulatory
Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL), with the International
Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the Commonwealth Telecommunications
Organization (CTO).
Chief Executive Officer of Hutchison Telecommunications Lanka (Pvt)
Ltd. Archie Man said, “Hutch is a key mobile service provider globally
where some of its companies prosper on next generation technology and we
are honoured to be apart of this occasion.”
The event will bring together ITU experts, officials from the
government and regulatory agencies, and industry leaders actively
involved in planning of next generation communications equipment and
services.
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