India – Sri Lanka consultations on cyber-security
As part of the overall bilateral partnership on digitalization and engagements on emerging areas such as Artificial Intelligence, a delegation comprising Dr. Sanjay Bahl, Director General, CERT-India and Mr. Amit Shukla, Joint Secretary (Cyber Diplomacy), Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India visited Colombo for first cyber consultations.
During the visit, the delegation called on Hon. Eranga Weeraratne, Deputy Minister of Digital Economy where they discussed cyber security governance frameworks, emerging challenges posed by AI for cybersecurity, need to exchange threat assessments and best practices deployed by CERT-India, including in capacity building, incident response etc.
The delegation also called on Hon (Dr.) Anil Jayantha Fernando, Minister of Labour & Deputy Minister of Finance and Planning, where they discussed cybersecurity collaboration in context of a shared goal of a secure financial system & digital economy. Detailed discussions were held with Mr Thilak Pathirage, Chairman Sri Lanka CERT and Dr. Kanishka Karunasena, CEO Sri Lanka CERT on potential areas of collaboration in the field of knowledge exchange, capacity building, cyber crisis management and development of various national level strategies on quantum computing and AI.
