{"id":1393,"date":"2022-06-28T17:38:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T17:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parliamentnews360.com\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2022-06-28T17:38:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T17:38:07","slug":"speaker-bagbin-attends-cyber-security-conference-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parliamentnews360.com\/index.php\/speaker-bagbin-attends-cyber-security-conference-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"SPEAKER BAGBIN ATTENDS CYBER SECURITY CONFERENCE IN ISRAEL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The International Cyber Security Week is being held in Tel Aviv, the capital of Israel, and is being attended by the Speaker of the House, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin. in Tel Aviv, the capital of Israel.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Speaker is accompanied by the Clerk to Parliament, Cyril Nsiah, the MP for Ho West and a member of the ICT Steering Committee of Parliament, Emmanuel Bedzrah, the Director of ICT, Mrs. Shirley-Ann Fiagome, her deputy, Leslie Addico, and staff members from the reforms team of the office of the clerk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Participants from academics and business representing more than 40 nations are attending the four-day conference, which began on Monday. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is also attending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is aimed at readying Parliament and other government institutions to respond to cyber security attacks which are said to be on the increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Future Landscape of the Cyber Security World – 2030 and Beyond, Cyber Crisis Management and Readiness, Security in the Quantum Age, Maritime Cyber Security, Data Protection, Digital Sovereignty and Cyber Security, among others, are some of the subjects that will be covered during the conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brigadier General (Rtd) Rami Efrati, one of the conference planners, discussed the theme “Cyber Security World – 2030 and Beyond” on Monday. He said cyber security poses a serious threat to the survival of small enterprises, multinational corporations, and even entire states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Cyber is a big business, it is going to be big business forever because as long as new technologies are coming and as as far as hackers are concerned, there is business to do” Brigadier-General Efrati said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to him, cyber security criminals are adopting new trends to enhance their nefarious activities which require that institutions of state and businesses upped their games to combat such attacks which are expected to increase in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of these attacks, Brigadier General (Rtd)  Efrati said are not to make money but to generate fake news and misinformation to change minds negatively to undertake a course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using a health facility in Israel which he said has been attacked recently as an example, the retired soldier said the world must come together to nib cyber security in the bud as areas such as oil and gas, maritime, governance, telecommunication, banking amongst others remain susceptible to cyber criminals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking in an interview with the Ghanaian Times on the relevance of the conference to the operations of Parliament, Mrs Fiagome said it would help enhance Parliament’s preparedness to the increasing cases of attacks on the legislature’s systems..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We do have cyber security attacks mostly on our emails. Very often, our subscribers receive email from [attackers] pretending to be coming from parliament and ask them to sign in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Once they do that, the attackers have access to our system, change the password and attack the system and results in denial of service because our servers are blocked from sending emails until the issue is resolved,” she revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stating that these incidents have impact on the operations of Parliament, Mrs Fiagome said, measures, including preventing an email from sending a certain number of mails per day, have been taken to end the attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the attackers getting sophisticated by the day, Mrs Fiagome urged other institutions to adopt continual user-awareness trainings to their staff  to be current on the trends of cyber attacks and how to detect them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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