Cyber Security Summit from 27 July

Kathmandu, July 23: Information Security Response Team Nepal (NPCERT) is organising ‘Global Cyber Security Summit (GCSS) 2018 on July 27 and 28 in Kathmandu.

The summit being organised with the theme ‘Building Global Alliance for Cyber Resilience’ will include a pre-summit workshop at the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), panel discussion, key note speech and deliberations.

We are organising the summit with an aim to gather expertise int eh field of cyber security in regards to share knowledge and skills, said Chiranjibi Adhikari, Summit Coordinator and President of the NPCERT.

“The summit is an initiative to make people aware of information security in order to establish a strong security situation in Nepal. It will empower new generation and will bring together different stakeholders from various parts of the world to discuss on current cyber security trends,” he said.

Vice-Chancellor of NAST Prof. Dr. Jiba Raj Pokharel said that the growing cyber threats had created challenges for the government as well as private sector institutions all around the globe and Nepal should be proactive to fight with the new challenges.

The event will be attended by IT professionals, security experts, government officers, enterprises and academicians.

Champika Wijayatunga from ICANN, Vivek Srivastava from CISCO and other IT professionals will be speaking in the forum, said the organiser.

It also said that the summit will provide networking opportunity with national and international business partners, employers and clients, and may create opportunities for foreign security firms to enter into Nepal’s security market.

NPCERT is a society of Information Security experts formed to address the urgent need for the protection of national information and growing cyber security threat in Nepal.