Bangladesh, India keen to work together against cyberthreats

The neighbouring Bangladesh and India are keen to work together to deal with cyber threats. To this end, the two countries agreed to jointly conduct cyber drills and capacity-building workshops.

The information was disclosed at a bilateral meeting between Sanjay Bahl, director general of the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) under the Ministry of Electronics and IT of the government of India, and Bangladesh State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak at the head office of CERT-IN in New Delhi on Monday, read a press release.

The senior officials concerned were present at the meeting.

On the same day, the state minister visited the office of BLS International Services Ltd, an Indian outsourcing service provider for government and diplomatic missions worldwide, and inspected the operations of its Customer Service Center located at Geeta Nagar, New Delhi, the release added.

Palak also held a meeting with Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) CEO Col Nikhil Sinha in India.