Forum on Practical IT Security Monitoring on April 3
View(s):eCon Int., a community initiative set on elevating cybersecurity benchmarks across Sri Lanka, will launch a collaborative platform for the country’s growing community of cybersecurity experts by hosting its inaugural forum on April 3 at Mandarina hotel Colombo.
The forum – titled ‘Practical Monitoring: How to Improve Your Monitoring Capabilities’ – will serve as a fast-track foundation for Systems Engineers, Security Analysts, IT Managers and Consultants on applying cybersecurity functions and tools across local IT ecosystems. Operational IT teams can greatly benefit from the forum by understanding how to establish internal security operations, analysing and interpreting digital threats, and building required skills for strong network security monitoring, the organisers said in a media release.
With the overarching objective of building a formidable local community of cybersecurity experts in Sri Lanka, eCon aims to address the lack of public forums for engagement and collaboration for this growing target audience in the country. All eCon events plan to be vendor-neutral knowledge sharing sessions that will not only foster community collaboration, but also nurture a sense of responsibility across the local IT community towards safeguarding and controlling our cyber ecosystem. “For the first time in Sri Lanka, cybersecurity experts will be offered a hands-on opportunity to test and deploy the latest tech advances against data breaches and online security risks. The event will also set a strong foundation in building a network of like-minded cybersecurity experts who aim at raising the bar high on local cybersecurity benchmarks in Sri Lanka,” it said.
Considering the growing threat of cybercrime and the continued escalation of regulatory requirements across the globe, cybersecurity is increasingly gaining widespread attention from local IT teams looking to implement effective monitoring across businesses and enterprises in the country. From Log Retention and Monitoring, to SOC (Security Operations Center) as a Service or Manage, Detect and Response (MDR) solutions, IT teams can utilise a myriad of progressive cybersecurity technologies to build a strong monitoring foundation and gain greater control of the security posture of their organisation.