Islamabad: Building further on its ongoing drive for a digital FBR, Chairman FBR Asim Ahmad inaugurated the Security Operations Center (SOC) this morning at FBR Headquarters, Islamabad.
SOC is a state-of-the-art center designed for prevention, detection, and incident response against cybersecurity attacks on the FBR IT network.
This most modern digital intervention has been made operational round-the-clock.
It is powered by the world’s leading automated solutions and tools for cybersecurity incident monitoring, inspection for malware and ransomware attacks, data backup/recovery solutions, software vulnerabilities scanning, IT infrastructure penetration testing, and performance monitoring.
It is pertinent to mention that these multiple security controls have already been implemented at FBR with sophisticated firewalls, intrusion detection systems, security orchestration and response capability, email threats security, database security, web browser security and end-user security awareness.
FBR Member IT Dr. Ashfaq Ahmad Tunio along with Secretary IT Sardar Umar, briefed the Chairman about its key features and functions.
He informed that within a short span of 4-5 months, nine different world-class security technology solutions have been procured and implemented or are nearing implementation. This robust and high-tech defense-in-depth architecture is a watershed initiative which has inbuilt monitoring mechanisms within the SOC. This has significantly uplifted the security posture of the data and IT network of FBR, he further explained.
The FBR Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Kamran Meer, further briefed that a roadmap has been created to implement various other security technology solutions in the coming months to attain a truly world-class posture for FBR in accordance with international best practices, within an overarching information security Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) framework.
He also reiterated that the occurrence of cyber-attacks was a norm in heavily IT-enabled organizations such as FBR and the most effective approach to cyber defense was to establish a strong program where cyber risk assessments, risk mitigations, SOC operations and rapid incident response were conducted in repetitive cycles with oversight and support for resources provided by the highest levels of management.
