Ammar Jaffri noted that Pakistan lacked the required national Cyber Emergency Response Team (CERT) to ensure the adoption of cybersecurity measures.
The most significant barriers to implementing cybersecurity solutions, according to Mahir Mohsin Sheikh, CEO of Trillium Information Security Systems, were a lack of resources, budget constraints, and cutting-edge technology.
The Institute of Regional Studies (IRS) held a roundtable discussion on “The challenges of implementing cybersecurity solutions in Pakistan,” on Wednesday. Mr. Sheikh delivered the keynote address.
A better governance model, according to Mr. Sheikh, was necessary for the goal. Additionally, he added, a skilled workforce is required for the efficient application of cybersecurity solutions. Learning various skills and techniques through a Cyber Security Online Course can help in protecting data from cyber-attacks.
Ammar Jaffri, the founder of Digital Pakistan and a former assistant director general of the FIA, noted that Pakistan lacked the required national Cyber Emergency Response Team (CERT) to ensure the adoption of cybersecurity measures.
He added that we should create our own security solutions for our digital assets because of our limitations, which included a lack of departmental collaboration and a lack of knowledge of AI use cases. He placed emphasis on including cyber-ethics in school, college, and university curricula in order to address the problem of cyber-awareness.
Hira Farooq, a manager of business development, discussed the importance of incorporating business development models into private forums to implement cybersecurity solutions. She claimed that there were three different types of cybersecurity attacks: individual, corporate, and governmental. She concentrated more on data breaches.
She noted that 100,000 cyberattacks are reported annually, resulting in losses of about $2 billion, according to an IBM report. She suggested that blockchain technology and artificial intelligence were essential for protecting or storing personal data.
The IRS President, Nadeem Riyaz, concluded the meeting by urging participants to invest in the field of cybersecurity, use blockchain technology to prevent data breaches, create public-private partnerships, and fund research and development.
Although policies were written down, he claimed that their execution was the main issue. The ultimate goal, according to him, is to protect the territory in which we live. Education reform was needed to raise awareness of cybersecurity.