Cyber Security Week begins

Ridma Dissanayake

Sri Lanka will hold its annual Cyber Security Week (CSW) which commenced yesterday, the Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team (SLCERT) said.

The National Cyber Security Awareness Week is held each year. It aims to educate the industrialists. CSW 2011 will be a great event, with the fourth Annual National Conference on Cyber Security on October 19 and two technical workshops to be held on October 20 and 21 at the Cinnamon Lake Side Hotel.

According to the SLCERT Senior Information Security Engineer Rohana Palliyaguru the first workshop will be held under the theme "Virtualization, Cloud Computing and the Next Generation of Enterprises Architecture"and the second workshop will focus on the theme of "Know your enemy by tracking bottlenecks".

In addition to that they have planned to hold Hacking Challenge and (ISC)2 CISSP Boot Camp as part of this programme.

The Hacking Challenge commenced on October 3 and Boot Camp will be held on October 18. SLCERT says programmes had been organized for university students as a part of CSW 2011.