CSI Nepal Completed 16th Cyber Security Program at Samriddhi College

Cyber Security Program Group Photo at Samriddhi College

Cyber Security International (CSI) Nepal completed cyber security awareness program at Samriddhi College. Previously, CSI Nepal has conducted cyber security awareness program at different colleges. On June 26, 2016, CSI Nepal has organized the program at IT enabled college, Lokanthali, Bhaktapur. Samriddhi College is itself a top ranked IT college in the nation that has included CSIT courses in its curriculum.

Participants of the program Cyber Security Awareness

Mr. Laxman Bhattarai, Mr. Chiranjibi Adhikari and Mr. Bikram Khadka were the presenter of the program who explained about the cyber security. Laxman Bhattarai presented a presentation showing the basic introduction about websites and ‪#‎web‬ ‪#‎security‬ of both internal and public websites. Mr. Bhattarai said, We need to upgrade the security concerns with the increasing use of technology in Nepal. Server security is the most and important matter to have knowledge about for more security and safety while accessing our work via internet. He even talked about the security threats like SQL Injection which is mostly used technique in Nepal for web-hacking, DDOS attack and Spamming.

Mr. Laxman Bhattarai receiving token of love

Mr. Chiranjibi Adhikari also presented about the cyber security stating awareness and education as the first line of defense. He said, with evolution of viruses are also evolving. Cyber threat is high in developed countries with high use of internet so gaining knowledge and learning the ways to protect ourselves from cyber-crime is must. CSI Team is here to do awake our nation’s people so that they can be aware and face the challenges cyber-crime may bring in the future.

Mr. Chiranjibi Adhikari receiving token of love

In the program the presenter also stated about the condition of Nepal in terms of cyber-crime where 70% websites in Nepal are open to hacking threats. To avoid these crimes everyone must have a unique and strong password combination for each account they have been using and not to have similar passwords for every account. The technique of phishing content like malware and bad-ware were also discussed including how keeping our data backup and file storage to prevent it from viruses. Also about the major problems in social media security and the ways to overcome it.

The principal of Samriddhi College, Mr. Sandeep Shrestha thanked all the team members of CSI Nepal for their help and awareness which really is one of the important matters to be learned about especially for the IT students. He said, this campaign will surely help our IT students because they have been studying about cyber-crimes but the awareness camp with practical illustrations and real life experiences of victims will encourage them to get involve in finding solutions for cyber-threats.

The program was sponsored by Mr. Prem Bhandari - Civil Engineer / CEO of AMA Engineering, Virginia USA and Mr. Anil Pandey - CEO of www.motherlandnepal.org, Honorary PRR of NTB, California USA.