InfoSecCon-2024
Shared responsibility is a must ensuring digital space safety

Shared responsibilities must be ensured to save countries digital space safety speakers said this at “InfoSecCon-2024” held at Dhaka on 9 March, Saturday. The conference included topic based sessions and panel discussions on various topic where countries leading professionals were presents.

S M Tofayel Ahmad, joint director, ICT, Bangladesh Bank well explained about the cyber resiliency on broader perspective. He discussed some statistics on cyber attack specially on Banking sector in recent times and way forward to remediate.

Fahad Zaman Chowdhury, Joint Director (ICT), Back office and member CIRT, Bangladesh Bank delivered a insightful discussion on “Enhancing compliance and regulatory frameworks in Bangladesh banking sector: challenges and mitigation”. He emphasized time demanding guidelines and implementation by the regulatory authority to protect organizations.

Adli Wahid, Senior internet security specialist from APNIC describes the importance of zero trust security in the era of Generative AI in Bangladesh perspective. He described some key challenges and way forward for this framework.

Mahdee uz zaman, International Consultants, A2i on his key note speech on “Exploring data center and cloud services: Bangladesh Perspective” said, for many reason Bangladesh has become a growing market for data center and cloud services. Bangladesh draws attention on international market in this sector. Economic growth, digital transformation initiatives, Connectivity and Infrastructure Development and so on are engaging more IOT devices and thus create more data which must be stored within countries boarder as per regulation.

Another panel discussion titled “Ransomware defense strategies: A comprehensive approach in the modern threat landscape” where Md. Ishaque Miah, CISO, Bangladesh Bank, Md. Shahadat Hossain, Principal Engineer, Enterprise Security, Grameen phone, Md. Najmul Islam, SP, CTTC, DMP discussed the current ransomware trends, tactics and mitigation way. The panelists emphasized on people, process and technology in the age of AI generated attack to safeguard the institutions. The session was moderated by Sumon Ahmed Sabir, EC Member, APNIC.

Director General of National cyber security agency (NCSA) Abu Sayed Md. Kamruzzaman said, The gov.t is working tirelessly working to secure countries digital space. He referred various activities of NCSA in cyber security arena. He said, as in cyber security arena, no one is 100% protected so we have to fight against it all together.

Special Guest Debdulal Roy, ED (ICT) Bangladesh Bank said, Cybersecurity is very important in Bangladesh for various reasons. It helps in protecting against different and changing cyber threats. It also safeguards important data and critical infrastructure, and helps in reducing financial losses. Following regulations and building public trust in digital services are also important aspects of cybersecurity. Effective cybersecurity measures need a comprehensive approach that includes technical solutions, regulatory frameworks, capacity building, and public awareness campaigns.

Md. Shamsul Arefin, ICT Secretary said, we all are in pin point of cyber attack because cyber criminals are smarter and they applied advanced technic to attack. So, we have to be prepared against them with combined efforts. Gov.t, private, individuals, institutions along with researchers and startups all should come forward to safe our digital space as well safe our country digitally.

The event was attended by local, foreign guests, stock holders and industry experts.

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