SHAFAQNA PAKISTAN (Shia News Agency)
After the revelations of Edward Snowden Cyber Security has become need of the hour for every country. For this specific purpose in 2013 the Senate Committee on Defence and Defence Production organised a policy seminar on “Defending Pakistan Through Cyber Security Strategy” in coordination with Pakistan Information Security Association (PISA) in order to address security issues related to the internet. Our cyber security must have three fundamental elements. Pakistan’s digital infrastructure must have the ability to resist attacks, cyber penetration and disruption; Defend against emerging cyber threats, whether state sponsored or otherwise, and ability to retaliate regionally, at least; Ability to recover quickly from cyber incidents, whether caused by cyber aggression, accident or natural disaster. “Chairman of Senate Defence Committee Senator Mushahid Hussain has underlined the need for a cyber security strategy for Pakistan, since cyber warfare is an emerging security threat. He was giving a keynote speech at the launch of a book on Cyber Security by Dr Tughral Yamin at National University of Science & Technology (NUST)” , writes the Nation.
Senator Mushahid listed the need for legislation, establishing a Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), a Joint Inter-Services Cyber Defence Command, and Cyber ‘rules of the game’ within SAARC framework between Pakistan and India to ensure that neither side engages in cyber warfare against the other or does hacking of each other’s websites. Pakistan is also wary of NSA spying after the reports that Pakistan and Iran are the countries, most spied by US. Pakistan’s security concerns, of course, are not limited to possible NSA spying. Hacktivists purportedly from the Islamic republic frequently trade online attacks with those from arch rival India, and occasionally further afield.
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