Learning to be secured

President of BCS, SM Iqbal, inaugurated the workshop in presence of the BCS Executive Council Members. The key resource person of the workshop, Dr John Choi, CEO and president of MarkAny Inc. of South Korea, who is a reputed consultant on digital security, authentication and copyright protection presented more than 40 workshops and seminars on the subject around the globe. Dr. Choi was accompanied by Professor Jeongbae Lee of Department of Information and Computer Science, Sunmoon University, South Korea, who also presented an important session at the workshop.

The workshop targeted the ICT companies who provide and develop services and solutions on internet, networking, data communication, software, multimedia, voice communication, ATM or credit cards and online financial transactions including banking and related value added and other IT enabled services to businesses within Bangladesh and across the borders.

Twenty five personnel, mainly responsible for system security management and assurance, from different companies attended the workshop. Dr. Choi and Prof. Lee elaborated the aspects, tools and techniques of digital security and authentication of documents and contents to make and keep those safer and how to protect the copyright of those products and services in detail. The workshop was segmented by lectures, visual presentation, practical session and open discussion. The participants also interacted with the presenters with great interest.

It is expected that the participants at the workshop would be able to contribute for safer products, services, contents and documents at their respective places of work implementing the techniques and tools they came to know through the workshop.