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Registration open for “1st Agile Cyber Drill-2025” scheduled for February 26, 2025 online with an awards ceremony for 9 March an initiative by AGS Quality Action Ltd. The drill will involve companies, microfinance institutions, IT service providers, and others to evaluate their readiness for cyber risks.
The drill targets corporate IT professionals, enabling them to strengthen their organizations’ resilience against cyber threats with the simulations of phishing, ransomware, and DDoS attacks to test response strategies, identify vulnerabilities, and promote proactive cybersecurity.
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On December 14, 2024, AGS Quality Action Limited hosted on its first successful press conference at the National Press Club to announce its Cyber Drill Program, which aims to improve cybersecurity preparedness where representatives from the Bangladesh Computer Society (BCS) attended, highlighting their technical partnership with AGS QA in tackling cybersecurity challenges.
To focus on the Cyber Drill recently pre-Cyber Drill Conference was arranged at Krishibid institute of Bangladesh at where about 200 participants were present from the IT and cyber security industries.
Director General of the National Cyber Security Agency (NCSA), Abu Sayed Md. Kamruzzaman, expressed regret over missed opportunities to enhance cybersecurity in Bangladesh following the 2014 Sonali Bank hack. Speaking at the “Pre-Cyber Drill Conference 2025,” he emphasized that greater awareness could have potentially prevented the 2016 Bangladesh Bank hack. Kamruzzaman urged stakeholders to treat cybersecurity with more urgency and stressed the importance of robust measures, noting that many CTOs failed to convince CEOs of the issue’s importance due to the lack of immediate tangible benefits.
Fahad Zaman Chowdhury, Joint Director (ICT) at Bangladesh Bank, stressed the importance of security awareness training, phishing simulations, and social engineering awareness for all employees. He called for regular security assessments, vulnerability management, incident response planning, and continuous monitoring. He suggested that adopting data protection and privacy regulations like GDPR would enhance Bangladesh’s security. Additionally, he mentioned that Bangladesh Bank’s ICT security guidelines could help other organizations improve their cybersecurity.
Bangladesh Computer Society (BCS) here as the technical partner and BGD e-GOV CIRT will manage the CTF platform where the drill will involve 150 professional cybersecurity engineers who will support participating organizations in conducting the exercises.
The conference featured Chief Guest Shish Haider Chowdhury, Secretary of the ICT Division, and key officials, including Md. Anwarul Alam, Additional Secretary and Director General of the Bangladesh Accreditation Board, and Dr. Muhammed Mehedi Hassan, Executive Director of the Bangladesh Computer Council. Representatives from BASIS, BACCO, Bangladesh Bank, and the Bangladesh Computer Society also attended.
GS Quality Action Ltd. (AGS QA) leads the charge in organizing the Agile Cyber Drill 2025. AGS QA has teamed up with assiduity titans and corporate bodies to bring a Cyber Drill exhibit that’s acclimatized to inspire and elevate the Cyber Drill geography in Bangladesh. (Click here to register)
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