It’s 2023 and Sri Lanka doesn’t have a cyber security authority

Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Technology has confirmed it would have a cyber security authority – in some unspecified time in the future.

According to native media, state minister Kanaka Herath advised the Cyber Security Conference in Colombo that efforts to create a cyber security authority in 2023 are beneath method.

The authority is established by the Cyber Security Bill [PDF] as a part of a wider technique. The invoice is anticipated to be submitted to the nation’s parliament this 12 months.

Sri Lanka ranks 81st out of 175 international locations within the National Cyber Security Index. In January, it scored a 0 for cover of digital and important providers. The nation was, nonetheless, given 9 out of 9 factors for schooling and skilled growth.

Yet, as of 2020, Sir Lanka claimed membership among the many third of nations that didn’t have some type of a nationwide cyber security technique.

The Global Cybersecurity Index in 2020 listed over half of the world’s international locations as having a laptop incident response workforce (CIRT) and nearly two-thirds as having some type of a nationwide cyber security technique.

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According to administration consulting agency Kearney, in Asia many CIRTS play the position of de facto nationwide cyber security businesses – for higher or worse.

The European Union developed a region-wide cyber security technique in 2013 – however growing such a framework has been harder for ASEAN, of which Sri Lanka is a member. The area is bifurcated by having some international locations – like Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines – with methods in place, whereas others don’t.

According to Kearney, ASEAN faces challenges in pulling collectively a unified framework “largely because of the inherent absence of a power to legislate or veto budgets and appointments.”

“The lack of sector-specific governance and policies is a region-wide issue, resulting in limited transparency and a lack of sharing of threat intelligence,” mentioned Kearney. ®