Security News > 2023 > May > It's 2023 and Sri Lanka doesn't have a cyber security authority
Sri Lanka's Ministry of Technology has confirmed it will have a cyber security authority - at some point.
According to local media, state minister Kanaka Herath told the Cyber Security Conference in Colombo that efforts to create a cyber security authority in 2023 are under way.
The authority is established through the Cyber Security Bill [PDF] as part of a wider strategy.
Sri Lanka ranks 81st out of 175 countries in the National Cyber Security Index.
As of 2020, Sir Lanka claimed membership among the third of countries that did not have some form of a national cyber security strategy.
The European Union developed a region-wide cyber security strategy in 2013 - but developing such a framework has been more difficult for ASEAN, of which Sri Lanka is a member.
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