Nepal's cyber
security why weaknesses point
A few
weeks ago, about two thousand government websites were hacked after four hours
closed. Question has been raised in Nepal's cyber security.
Experts believe that the hackers attack on the server of national information technology centering of government agencies websites showed a weak state of cyber security.
They said
that the incident is large and threatening the national security in the future,
will not increase its lessons. Officials say that after the incident adopting
more vigilance for cyber security, government officials.
Due to
weakness of cyber security, the lack of necessary policy and action plan, lack
of investment in security and lack of regular safety test is the main three reasons.
Ø Predecessor required
According to
Cyber Security Advisor Saroj Lamichenne, the government should formulate
policy and method for dealing with such incidents.
Lamichhane
says: "To avoid such threats, it is necessary to set a definite period and
plan cyber security with priority."
He suggested
that the criteria for purchase equipment of information technology used in
government bodies should be made.
In the event
of increasing the use of technology globally, Nepal also needs to formulate
timely policy.
"Cyber
assault for Nepal cannot be seen as a major subject in the instantaneous
situation, even if it is not serious about such issues, it may have to face a
major risk at once," he added.
Ø Low investment in security
Vice President of Computer Association Nepal (CAN)
Federation, Sunnah Pandey said that due to government depression, the country
could not invest in information technology sector because the country could not
progress relatively well about cyber security.
He said that the government has started keeping
important personal details such as citizenship and driver's permission on
websites, and said that there could be no higher cost in the future, if not to
invest immediately in that area.
Pandey says, "The website seems to be justified
after leaving the website now. Information may be stolen at the time of the
website running.
He has experienced two or three teams to secure the
server in other countries.
"A team is working to attack the server in a new
way and another team will resist it so that it can be done immediately after
the attack is attacked."
He said that the government wants to save the software
from cyber-attack in Nepal.
Ø Security alert
Based on the needs of the government, based on a
certain type of software, rather than using a website by using the website,
then officials say successful hackers are able to attack the same number.
Information Officer of National Information Technology
Center, Ramesh Prasad Pokharel told BBC Nepali service, "It has started
using non-software software to minimize such incidents - it will likely reduce
the potential to hack in future."
According to him, the recent hack did China and India
hackers, and it affected the flow of service to various important bodies.
The release issued by the Center was stated that
government service was blocked in the official domain name server (gov.np
DNS) due to the huge traffic coming from abroad in the Government Unified
Data Center.
Pokharel says: "Such conditions have also been
made repeatedly, even if there is no definite criterion or policy about making
important things like government agencies websites. “There is no security test
to continue at that time."
Ø Policy arrangements
Although cyber assault through the internet cannot be
stopped, it can be said that Rosa Kiran Basukula, deputy director of the Nepal
Telecommunication Authority, was made rapidly by speeding the process of making
necessary policy rules.
Bacukala says: "We have presented the documents
regarding cyber security policy in collaboration with the International
Telecommunications Association before the government."
He said that it is important to safeguard the website
and discourage cybercrimes if the payment for online banking and internet is
accelerating.
Sources By:
BBCNEPAL