Importance of Cyber Security in Pakistan

Aleena Jaffari
2 min readFeb 2, 2022

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Cyber security is a requirement of the place where Cyber based technologies are used mostly on the large scale. In Pakistan these Cyber Based technologies are becoming more common day by day they are not just restricted to the big organizations, banks and institutions. They are used at small levels too everywhere. This use makes the Cyber security an important aspect for policy of Pakistan. Last year Pakistan has faced Cyber-attacks through which money was stolen. It was not only a loss to people at individual level but a loss for whole Pakistan or it was a national loss as there was no security measures in the systems of Pakistan. They are highly Vulnerable to the attacks even an ordinary hacker can hack the most important data of Pakistan easily.[1]

Now a days every Pakistani is aware of these terms. There are special tools and software through which these types of crimes have been done so there should be some software and tools which can fight back to protect their data and money etc. Hackers use different techniques for Cyber-attacks. Some of the examples are as follows

· In Canada, a high school student hacked Amazon, CNN, eBay and Yahoo at the same time in 2000 it causes loss of 1.2 billion dollars.

· In 2011, a hacker was caught downloading and publishing academic journals illegally.

· In 2017, a virus named “Wanna cry” was used to hack the UK’s medical system.

China is the hub of hackers who made different types of viruses, software and techniques to harm the systems of other states. Unfortunately, the major power is also unable to secure their systems till now so, how it is possible for Pakistan to do so. fate is no one is even taking this issue seriously as these attacks are highly damaging to the state over all. We can’t even imagine the elimination of Cyber based technologies from our daily lives then how we are ignoring the security for it. As homes are essential for us its foolproof security is the first concern in our minds so a person using Cyber based technologies should think first about its security at individual level. There understanding regarding the importance of Cyber security should not be limited. It is also becoming a responsibility of government too to aware people of the risk they are having and the major issues which are mostly faced by the institutions. With awareness a strategy is also required to overcome issues.[2]

No technology that is connected to the internet is unhackable.

[1] Zeeshan Munir, “Cyber security issues in Pakistan”,2018.

[2] Muhammad Shabbir, “Cyber security in Pakistan, Emerging Threats and Preventive measures”,2013

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