Cyber Security Context in Nepal Event Successfully Conducted; Summary of Event

Last Updated on 6 years ago by ICT Byte

Cyber Security Context in Nepal, the event organized by the Center For Cyber Security Research and Innovation (CSRI) and Information Security Response Team Nepal (npCert) in association with Nepal Telecommunications Authority, CSIT Association of Nepal and CAN Federation was successfully conducted today, Tuesday at 3 pm.

This event was hosted to focus on the Cyber Security Context in Nepal (Past / Present/way) with the resource person Mr. Narayan Koirala. He is a Software Engineer along with an MBA degree. He is also a certified ISO 27001:2013 Auditor and a certified CISCO CCNA CyberOps professional. Besides, he is associated with the Nepalese Young Entrepreneurs’ Forum (NYEF), Lions Club International, and CAN Federation.

Mr. Koirala has been featured in numerous National and International Media and shared his thoughts about rising cybercrime and prevention in various conferences/ events. His articles about Cyber Hygiene and Data Security in the fast-paced technological advancement are being followed by many individuals and organizations.

With all his experiences and knowledge it was a pleasure to listen to his thoughts about the Cyber Security context in Nepal. Here is the short summary of the event that he had shared with us.

Summary of Event

Digital Assets

According to him, Individuals should know about their digital assets like hardware, software, software access, and social accounts that they use. Then only they can focus on how to secure the assets that are at the organizational level.

Pillars of Cybersecurity

The three basic pillars of Cybersecurity are;

• People
• Technology
• Process

History of CyberSecurity

• In the early 1990s when technology just started its growth there was a very low risk of cyber threats.
• Later with the high growth in development and deployment, there was an increase in internet usage in the year 2000. With that growth came several viruses, trojans in the system.
• Similarly, the advancement in technology also brought cyber threats like Financial Fraud, Cross Border Crime, political crime in the 2010s.
• The current Scenario in 2020 seems to have more cyber threats than late histories like Intelligent Stealing, Cross country warfare, Deep fakes, and more political crimes and issues.

Current status of CyberSecurity in Nepal

#1. Information Technology Landscape

• Growth in Development and Deployment of IT systems
• Use of modern-day technologies for personal and professional life
• Ecommerce has revolutionalized the way
• Rise in the digital payment ecosystem.

#2. Common Attack Surface

• Communication channel
• Software Application
• Network Infrastructure
• Server/system
• people

#3. Limited understanding of Tech assests and risk areas

#4. Ignorance of people towards protection of assests/goodwill(knowledge vs practice)

#5. Existence of process but poor execution

#6.Ignorance towards cyber security by organizations

#7. Weak governance(national/institutional)

#8. Less preparance in Incident Handling

#9. Less prepared in continuos monitoring of assets and behaviour

Future of CyberSecurity

Major threats seems to be in;

• Social Engineering Attacks
• Targeted Ransomware Attacks
• Remote Worker Endpoint Security
• Cloud Security
• API Level attacks
• Misinformation and Deep fakes
• Mobile Malware/ Attacks
• 5G to Wifi Breaches

Threats as per sector

• Healthcare
• Telecommunication
• Government
• Media
• Education

Threat target

• Biological and Chemical Warfare
• Cyber Warfare

Solutions/ Things we should consider for CyberSecurity in Nepal

360 View of Cyber Security

Conclusion

There is massive opportunity ahead at various subdomains of CyberSecurity.

Some of the Queries by Audience

Lastly, with all this, the event was successfully conducted with the certification of recognition and appreciation to the resource Speaker Mr. Narayan Koirala.

If you have missed the live event, here is the attached video ;