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By Imaduddin
Business Recorder
09 July 2013
ISLAMABAD: The participants of a seminar on Monday agreed on a seven-point
action plan to ensure country's cyber security and to defend it against
emerging cyber threats.
Speaking on the occasion Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q)
Secretary-General Mushahid Hussain Sayed announced that country's cyber
security must have three fundamental elements, to resist cyber attacks,
cyber penetration and disruption. The seminar was held in wake of
startling revelations made by Edward Snowden who claimed that the American
National Security Agency (NSA) was spying on Pakistan through internet and
online communication systems with 13.5 billion pieces of email, phone and
fax communications intercepted.
"Our cyber security must have three fundamental elements. Pakistan's
digital infrastructure must have the ability to resist attacks, cyber
penetration and disruption; Defend against emerging cyber threats, whether
state sponsored or otherwise, and ability to retaliate regionally, at
least; Ability to recover quickly from cyber incidents, whether caused by
cyber aggression, accident or natural disaster," said Mushahid Hussain
while addressing the participants of the moot.
Since last year, the Senate Committee on Defence & Defence Production had
identified cyber warfare as a new, non-military security threat to the
country given its location and strategic role. Already in the region,
there is an ongoing cyber "war of words" between the United States and
China and out right cyber warfare between Iran and the United
States/Israel.
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