Staff Reporter
Speakers at a workshop here on Wednesday stressed the need for a national-level strategy to face the challenges arising from cyber space and to ensure that people, especially the youth, do not fall prey to the agenda of the enemy.
The workshop, organized by the Beaconhouse School System, was attended by a large number of students, teachers, parents and cyber security experts. In their speeches, the speakers said that subversion on religious, sectarian, ethnic and social issues through a soft offensive by using internet and the cyberspace needs a comprehensive counter strategy to ensure that people do not fall prey to the agenda of the adversaries. They maintained that the role of academia and education in cyber security is integral for effectively facing the challenges. They said even on bachelors and masters level education, the quality is not optimal to produce cyber security experts, adding that quality of curricula and syllabi must be enhanced to meet the latest challenges. However, they cautioned that whereas the need of action and policy for cyber security is essential, there must a balance between security and legal rights of citizens.
