The central bank has given 11 guidelines to all the banks and financial institutions of the country to prevent the risk of cyber attacks.
A group of hackers has threatened cyber attacks in Bangladesh, citing a possible attack date August 15. In view of the threat, the government has already issued a cyber security warning from the ‘Computer Incident Response Team’ (BGD e-Gov Cert).
A press release from BGD e-Gov Cert said that the cyber attack could disrupt the activities of the state's important information infrastructure (CII), banks, financial institutions, healthcare and public and private institutions. All concerned organizations are asked to prepare for the prevention of small or medium-sized cyber attacks.
To prevent such a situation, Bangladesh Bank has given 11 instructions to banks and financial institutions to prevent the attack of cyber attacks. Among them, it is notable that the network should be monitored for the purpose of 24 hours, especially the network outside the office schedule.
2. To ensure the infrastructural security of the related organization, they are - to set up the data for incoming HTTT/HTTPS traffic and filter the harmful requests and traffic patterns.
