Corporate IT security seminar

The CICRA Institute of Education (Pvt) Ltd will launch a high profiled corporate IT security seminar and workshop on September 27, in Colombo.

"It is reported that thousands of systems are being attacked around the world daily. No web sites or systems are one hundred percent safe. Even with high-level security, there is always a weakness...IT IS WAR OUT THERE!," CICRA Director and CEO Boshan Dayaratne said.

"As Web technology blossoms, vulnerabilities multiply and hackers are continuously looking to take advantage of them. Studies have shown that IT risks are everywhere. The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved," Dayaratne said.

"Malicious hackers are waiting to attack with every live application that an organization brings online. Hackers are using new tactics to disguise their malicious code, trying to outsmart security controls... Are you going to just wait, watch, and wait?" Dayaratne said.

"Hackers are here... where are you? This is the question we ask from the entire corporate sector in Sri Lanka," Dayaratne said.

The proposed seminar is not limited to IT guys, but top corporate decision makers including CEOs, COOs, CIOs and Human Resource Managers from each company should learn from this seminar, he said.

This seminar run by an internal trainer accredited by International Association of Electronic Commerce Consultants (EC-Council) explores the mind set of these hackers.