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With a festive look and the participation of more than one hundred participants from Bangladesh cyber industry, another successful cyber security conference “InfoSecCon-2024” (2nd Edition) was held at Dhaka on 26 October (Saturday) 2nd time in a year.
The very flagship event was designed with five time demanding topic including AI, Data center, Cloud service and so on and academician, researchers, professionals, Student, Banker participated the event.
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In the topic titled “AI-Driven Incident Response: Automating Cyber Security with GenAI” where Dr. Md. Shohrab Hossain, Professor, CSE, BUET, Reazul Islam, Chief Operating Officer, ADN technologies Ltd and Sifat Jahan Noor, Chief Information Officer, Bashundhara Group were participated.
The panelists said, AI-driven incident response uses Generative AI to improve cybersecurity by automating threat detection, analysis, and response. As cyber threats become more sophisticated, traditional methods struggle to keep up. GenAI can quickly analyze large datasets, identifying anomalies and potential breaches more efficiently than human analysts.
Panelists at “Future Prospects for Data Center and cloud services in Bangladesh with business continuity”
On the topic “Future Prospects for Data Center and cloud services in Bangladesh with business continuity”, Md. Ishaque Miah, Managing Director, Bangladesh Data Center and Disaster Recovery Site Ltd, Sharful Alam, Chief Executive Officer, Felicity IDC Limited, Masud Parvaj, Managing Director, DCiCON Limited and MD. Hasibur Rashid, Director & CMO of Intercloud Limited were participated as panelists.
The panelists said, Bangladesh is witnessing rapid digital transformation, driven by increasing internet penetration and a growing demand for data-driven services. The future of data centers and cloud services in the country looks promising for various reasons like growing demand, investment and infrastructure development, Business Continuity Focus and so on. So, policy support, trust gap minimizing, collaboration is essential for the expansion the industry.
On the topic “The Rise of DNS Attacks: From DDoS to Cache Poisoning” was discussed by Prof. Dr. Md. Saiful Islam, IICT, BUET, Dr. Md. Mamun-Or-Rashid, Professor, CSE, Dhaka University and Abu Zafor Md. Ahasanul Hoque (Uzzal), DGM, Core and Upstream, BTCL.
The learned talker successfully presented the Domain Name System (DNS) translates easy-to-remember domain names into IP addresses, but its significance also makes it a target for cyberattacks. The increase in these attacks highlights the need for strong DNS security, such as implementing DNSSEC and improving monitoring practices. Securing DNS infrastructure is crucial as the internet evolves.
On the topic “Cyber Security in Telco & BFSI”, Sanjoy Chakraborty, Associate Director, Cyber Security, Robi, Shahadat Hossain, Principal Engineer, Enterprise and Saiful Islam, FVP & CISO, Dhaka Bank PLC were participated where the the panelists highlighted the various dimension of telco and BFSI security.
And finally in the Questions & Answer (Q&A), Fahad Zaman Chowdhury, Joint Director, ICT, Bangladesh Bank, Dr. B M Mainul Hossain, Director (IIT), Dhaka University and Md. Abul Kalam Azad, Head Of Information Security, Eastern Bank PLC answered the participants questions.
As special guest Abu Sayed Md. Kamruzzaman, ndc Director General, National Cyber Security Agency highlighted the importance of cyber security on Bangladesh perspective. He said, the agency is working tirelessly for the betterment of the country to secure the cyber space.
In the speech of chief guest Shish Hyder Chowdhury, ndc, Secretary, ICT Division said, to secure Bangladesh digitally is prime concern of interim Government. We are finding way to work collaboratively to protect our digital space. We follow up various act, rules or framework how it can be modernized to be time equipped.
The event was organized by Infosecbulletin in collaboration with national cyber security agency (NCSA). To make the conference a success, Fiber@home participated as title sponsor, ADN Group and brilliant cloud as platinum sponsor and SmartData sponsored as gold sponsor category.
(InfoSecCon-2024, 1st edition link)
Shared responsibility is a must ensuring digital space safety
