Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka

ICT Industry to Double Growth

Monday, 08 February 2010 12:29

COO of ICTA, Reshan Devapura (middle) speaking at the press conference while Chairman Exhibition Committee, A. Jayaseelan (L) and Chairman of Infotel Ruwan Weerasinghe (R ) looks on. The Information Communication Technology (ICT) industry in Sri Lanka is on its way to grow at twice the rate than at present and has great potential to contribute to the socio economic development of the country.
Recognised as one of the fastest growing industries in Sri Lanka including the BPO/Software sector accounting for the country's income as the fifth largest export earner, the ICT industry has recorded an impressive growth within the past few years.
Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) has plans to speed up the growth process and achieve the position of second largest export earner of the country by 2012.
ICTA Chief Operating Officer Reshan Dewapura speaking at the press conference to announce the mini Infotel exhibition in Jaffna stated that the targeted growth could be easily achieved by involving the Peninsula in its development process. "The government is eyeing to lift IT and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industries to the second position in the export earning category by the year 2012 and to number one by 2015," Dewapura said, "We are sure that if the current trend continues we could effortlessly achieve our goals."

Nenasalas make their mark at 'Deyata Kirula' National Development Exhibition

Friday, 05 February 2010 10:01

The Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) will participate at the Deyata Kirula exhibition organised under the patronage of President Mahinda Rajapaksa and held at Pallekele, Kandy from today till 10th instant.

ICTA's participation will be articulated mainly by the Nenasala stall forming part of the National Development exhibition which will be inaugurated today coinciding with the 62nd Commemoration of Independence Day.

The Nenasala stall at the exhibition which is expected to attract about 4 million people will be an ideal opportunity for anyone to see for himself the facilities available at the 600 Nenasalas established island-wide.

The 'Nenasala stall at the'Deyata Kirula' exhibition held for the fourth time parallel to the Independence Day celebration will show how the Nenasalas bring the dividends of ICT to all and in particular to the remotest villager.

Sri Lanka plays a leading role as APCERT conducts a Regional Cyber Crimes Drill Exercise

Tuesday, 02 February 2010 13:50

The Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT) today (28th January 2010) completed its annual drill to test the response capability of leading Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRT) from Asia Pacific economies.

The theme of the drill was “Fighting Cyber Crimes with Financial Incentives”. The objective of the drill is for participating teams to exercise incident response handling arrangements locally and internationally to mitigate the impact of ongoing Internet based attacks and enable better coordination of teams in the region in tackling cyber incidents.

In this year’s scenarios, financial web sites handling online transactions including e-banking, e-auction and stock trading were under different kinds of attack by cyber criminals, with an aim to paralyze online business activities, to compromise user credentials and to transfer money to fuel the underground economy.

Criminals are capitalizing on the popularity of online business which has become a profitable revenue stream for the underground economy. Criminals use professionally developed botnets (network of zombie computers) to obtain login credentials, to host phishing site, and to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Victim computers may be compromised and become part of a botnet when users browse web sites infected by malware.