Bangladesh has been working to establish “Digital Bangladesh”, an integral part of the government’s Vision 2021 and perhaps key to achieving the middle-income-country status by 2024. According to an UNCTAD report, the ICT sector of Bangladesh has been growing at 40% annually since 2010. The industry generated an estimated annual revenue of USD0.8 billion in 2017 and is forecasted to grow to USD4.7 billion by 2025. Because of its role in job creation, industry growth and spillover effects to other sectors, ICT sector has been identified as a "thrust sector". ICT sector also holds a huge potential because of the country’s large share of young population—over 40% of the population is under 25 and more than half of the population are in prime working age (15–54) in a country of 160 million people. Over time, operations of many large organizations in the sectors such as telecom, banking, finance, pharmaceutical, and garment and textile industries have been automated and digitized.
The convenience and efficiency of increased digital penetrations come at a price—risk of cyber-attacks. Cyber-attacks may come in multiple forms (loss of data, intellectual property, financial asset, and system access) and with multiple impacts—economic loss, reputational loss and regulatory loss. Global connectivity and use of cloud services have only raised the risk of cyber threats. Gone are the days when firewalls and antivirus software were enough to ensure security of the data. In the circumstances, governments and organizations around the world are paying more and more attention to cyber security.
To address cyber security issues in Bangladesh, the government has passed the Digital Security Act 2018 with the formation of National Digital Security Council as the overarching body on cyber security. The government also asked organizations to develop robust and actionable cyber security road maps. The more important the digital assets (e.g. personal or identity data of people) the more robust the cyber security measures must be. Organizations must bear full responsibility for their digital assets. The government has already identified 22 Critical Information Infrastructures (CIIs)—which are physical or virtual information infrastructures in control of information and data, any damage or compromise of which may adversely affect public safety, financial security, public health, national security, national integrity or sovereignty.
SecOps strives to ensure all aspects of cyber security in Bangladesh, ensure information security for individuals and Govt., training professionals to meet future challenges and ultimately paving the way for developing own independent cyber security industry for Bangladesh.
A Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) is a group of information security experts responsible for the protection against, detection of and response to an organization’s cybersecurity incidents.
A Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) is a group of IT professionals that provides an organization with services and support surrounding the prevention, management and coordination of potential cybersecurity-related emergencies.
A security operations center (SOC) is a facility that houses an information security team responsible for monitoring and analyzing an organization’s security posture on an ongoing basis.
According to guideline provided in ISO 27005, our skilled team will assess your IT services and infrastructure and provide a thorough assessment report on current cyber risks of your organization.
Identifying vulnerabilities in internet-facing systems is an important first step for any organisation to improve their security posture and is central to effective cyber risk management.
Cybersecurity certification requires the organizations following certain set of standard procedures and compliance checklists developed by industry experts to be followed.
Financial firms are a constant and prominent hacking target for a range of cybercriminals from organized criminal gangs through to employees. The potential for immediate financial gain from transferring money, making purchases, or selling the information on the black market means cybercrime equals big money and it is an ever-increasing problem that will not go away.
According to a study published by the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) research department and the World Federation of Exchanges office, around half of the world’s securities exchanges were the subject of cyber-attacks last year.
Cyber-attacks targeting technology and telecommunications firms represent the most significant threat to their sensitive customer data and invaluable intellectual property.