INFORMATION AND CYBER SECURITY STRATEGY OF SRI LANKA
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4.1.2.
Wewill facilitate relevant
stakeholders to conduct information
4.4.
Awareness and Capacity Building of Staff
Working with Digital Government
and cyber security risk assessments
to uncover weaknesses and
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vulnerabilities in digital government
systems and infrastructure, and to
prioritize and implement appropriate
security controls to mitigate those
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4.2.
Security Policy for Organizations that
Maintain Digital Government Systems
We will facilitate the organizations
maintaining digital government systems and
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international standards.
4.3.
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Digital Government Infrastructure
Protection Unit
4.3.1. To effectively defend the digital
their email accounts have
unknown
45.5% are unaware that
been compromised
infrastructure from emerging threats,
30% do not know how to how to use
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44.1.
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It is widely believed that the
awareness of Sri Lankan public
officers on information and cyber
security should be improved. We will,
therefore, first conduct information
and cyber security readiness surveys
on public sector employees
periodically to assess their readiness
to work in a digital government
We will coordinate multi-sector
cybersecurity exercises with the
involvement of this unit. Through
these exercises, we aim to identify
vulnerabilities arising from crosssector interdependencies and stresstest coordination and
communication across sectors.
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passwords to protect sensitive documents
activities.
4.3.2.
person
73% do not have technology know how to
identify whether their official computers are
infected or not
we will setup the Digital Government
DIPA. This unit will be responsible
for detecting and analyzing cyber
threats and vulnerabilities,
disseminating cyber threat alerts,
and coordinating incident response
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government systems and
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organizations maintaining critical
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44.2.
environment.
In line with the Competency
Framework, CIOs and Technical staff
working in digital government
environment will be empowered with
appropriate skills and knowledge on
information and cyber security.
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