Ethical Hackers Forum of Sri Lanka launched

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The inaugural session of Ethical Hackers Forum of Sri Lanka, facilitated by CICRA Consultancies Ltd – the country’s pioneering cyber security training and consultancy organisation, was successfully held in Colombo recently.

The forum was launched with a view of strengthening the cyber security domain of Sri Lanka by providing a common space for interaction for cyber security professionals to share their knowledge and experience. It is very encouraging that more than a hundred cyber security professionals attended the event. Shalini Ratwatte, Corporate Attorney, South East Asia New Markets of Microsoft Corporation, Krishna Rajagopal, CEO, Akati International, Malaysia and CICRA Master Trainer conducted sessions during the

forum. Ratwatte presented the importance of combating cyber crimes and emphasised the need of taking proactive measures hence the financial sector of Sri Lanka is under a severe threat. Meanwhile, Rajagopal highlighted the need of paying the highest attention on cyber attacks while you are on crisis, taking the MH 370 incident as an example. He warned that the damage through cyber attacks at a crisis situation may be much serious if you were not ready early. “It is really happy and encouraging to have such enthusiastic response from our cyber security professionals. We are planning to broaden this space for interaction and to increase opportunities for our cyber security professionals to make this forum of their own: said CICRA Holdings Director/CEO Boshan Dayaratne. Ethical Hackers Forum is a quarterly event.