The Higher Education Commission (HEC) organised a daylong workshop on secure software development on Thursday in collaboration with Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), Pakistan Software Houses Association (PASHA) and Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS).
The workshop, attended by academicians and IT researchers, covered various dimensions of software security, web application security, control of cyber attacks and principles of secure application designs. Real life case studies were also presented during the activity.
HEC Executive Director Dr Arshad Ali highlighted significance of security of software and other IT systems and stressed the need for holding such workshops in universities. “HEC will continue to support such activities for betterment of students,” he said.
CSA President Dr Irfanul Haq shed light on cloud computing and contributions of the association towards software security. He said the CSA Global is likely to hold an international summit in Islamabad in 2017 on software certification.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 11th, 2016.
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