INFORMATION AND CYBER SECURITY STRATEGY OF SRI LANKA
Thrust # 4: Resilient Digital
Government Systems and
Infrastructure
Our Strategy
Sri Lanka has advanced rapidly over the past decade
in developing various digital government initiatives.
Multimillion investments made on various digital
government initiatives have helped Sri Lanka to
advance from 101 (2008) to 79" position (2016) in
Our strategy is to ensure that our digital
systems and digital infrastructure are resilient
to cyber threats, through implementing risk
management processes, implementing
appropriate security policies and strategies at
the organizational level, increasing awareness
and building the capacity of public sector staff
at all levels
the e-Government Development Index’. To date
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there are about 500 government websites and more
than 50 e-services facilitating citizens to obtain
services through the Internet. e-Administrative
applications have been developed by public
organizations that maintain critical infrastructure
with the aim of increasing the organizational
Risk
Assessment
Governmen
mes.
Security
Policy
efficiency thereby providing better services for
citizens. Lanka Government Network, and Lanka
Government Cloud provide the necessary digital
infrastructure for e-services and e-administrative
services.
Resilient
Digital
Readiness
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Although digital government initiatives promise
tremendous benefits for citizens and government,
they also bring threats of various cyberattacks such
as malware attacks, unauthorized access, and denial
of service attacks. Cyber-attacks on digital
government services can cause significant
disruptions to the public service delivery, and
thereby destroy public confidence. Our citizens will
not embrace digital government if their information
cannot be securely kept in the government systems.
It is, therefore, essential to adopt appropriate
strategies to ensure security of digital government
systems and critical information infrastructure.
Government
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Infrastrcture
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Our Initiatives
4.1.
Information and Cyber Security Risk
Assessments
4.1.1.
Wewill conduct a survey to identify
the organizations (both private and
public) which maintain critical
information systems. An inventory of
organizations shall be developed
based on the criticality of the
information infrastructure
maintained by the relevant
organization.
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