PM for foolproof cyber security

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday stressed the need for foolproof cyber security of digitised documents to ensure that the country can reap the maximum benefits from digitisation, keeping cyber criminals at bay.

“All need to stay alert so that the secrecy of the financial sector and classified information could not be breached in any way. We will also have to take measures so that nobody can commit crimes taking an advantage of our digital facilities,” she said.

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The PM was addressing the opening ceremony of Digital World-2016, the country's largest digital exposition, at the International Convention City Bashundhara.

The ICT Division in collaboration with Bangladesh Computer Council, Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) and A2I Programme of the Prime Minister's Office organised the three-day event, with the theme “Non-stop Bangladesh”.

Hasina said there were some problems with the digitisation process in the country. “So, we'll have to boost our capacity about cyber security. We'll train up manpower and procure necessary equipment.”

The government, she said, was going to enact a law, Digital Security Act 2016, for giving legal protection to the digitisation system.

Under this law, there would be a world-class digital forensic lab, a cyber security agency, a cyber-incident response team and a high-level digital security council, the PM told the programme.

About the Bangabandhu-1 satellite project, she said it was progressing fast. Bangladesh could even export satellite bandwidth after the commissioning of the country's first satellite in 2017, she added.

The PM went round different stalls at the exhibition venue and inaugurated six Smart Buses which would be used to impart training on ICT to women.

Chaired by ICT Division State Minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak, the programme was addressed, among others, by Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Post, Telecommunication and ICT Ministry Imran Ahmed, BASIS President Mostafa Jabbar and ICT Division Secretary Shyam Sunder Sikder.

Over 200 speakers, including 43 from renowned organisations such as Microsoft, Facebook, the World Bank, ZTE and Huawei, will take part in 18 sessions of the exposition.

Besides, seven ministers from as many countries will join an inter-ministerial conference.