Kathmandu, July 4: The use of information technology (IT) is not limited to facilitation to any sector but it has emerged itself as an industry, drawing huge investment, and research and development in recent years.
IT is further amplified with the digital disruption and cyberspace, propelling both the opportunities and threats. The business community and organizations alike are in the front to face both sides.
As a huge population in the world engages in cyberspace on the one hand and the cyberspace being increasingly integral to any organization on the other, the cases of cybercrimes have become nagging problems these days.
Nepal is no exception to the cybercrimes in business and organizations. With this in the background, Management Association of Nepal (MAN) organized a talk programme on ‘Reducing cybercrime for organizational prosperity’ in Kathmandu on Friday.
As part of its Friday management talk, MAN gathered over two dozens of people from diverse professions to dwell on the pressing issue of time- threats of cybercrime in organization.
On the occasion, expert on cybercrime and cyber law, Dr Shree Krishna Bhattarai made a presentation, urging all sides concerned to boost digital literacy and enable techno-legal capacity to navigate cyberspace safely and make most of the digital sphere.
He expressed worry over the dearth of digital literacy in multiple fronts ranging from grassroots to digital platform users and organizations, leading to inadequate approaches to deal with this issue.
“The security agency, prosecuting bodies/attorney and judiciary must enable themselves on techno-legal issues so that the cybercrimes cases are adequately investigated, prosecuted, monitored, and the justice delivered impartially,” Dr Bhattarai underscored.
Everything that comes in cyberspace does not invoke prerequisites to cybercrime, but the lack of understanding is creating confusion and weakening prosecution, he argued.
He shared various examples of cybercrimes in organization, making clear the participants on cyber-enabled and cyber-dependent crimes. Examples of DoS, DDoS, phishing, whaling were shared by him and the organizations cautioned to stay aware of hacking, data breach, extortion and other financial frauds committed via cyberspace.
“Financial stability, operational continuity and organizational image are damaged in no time by the cybercrime,” he said, suggesting organizations to use authentic software, update programmes periodically, and capacitate employees well to prevent cyber threats.
The participants queried how Nepal could navigate safely the cyberspace and make most of it. Dr Bhattarai suggested investment in techno-legal capacity building along with formulation of new laws like data protection act, cybercrime act, amendment to evidence act, and clarity and works for cyber sovereignty and digital sovereignty.
General Secretary of MAN Indra Kumar Shrestha informed that MAN had been conducting such talk programme for long on various significant issues, which could be benefitted by multiple sectors.
“Nowadays, organizational welfare depends largely on its capacity to prevent cyber threats and promote business by leveraging positive sides of digital spheres. So, this event dwelt on engaging issue of present time,” he observed.#nepal #Techno-legal #rss
