Sri Lanka, July 22 -- The Cabinet of Ministers has granted approval for the establishment of a Cyber Threat and Malware Analysis Research Unit within the Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team (Sri Lanka CERT).

Accordingly, a research unit is planned to be established within the Sri Lanka CERT with the objective of identifying cyber threats, enhancing the capability to combat such threats, and promoting the capacity for analyzing malware and developing human resources.

Digital transformation in Sri Lanka is expected to be expedited through major projects such as the Sri Lanka Digital Identity Card Project, the National Data Sharing Digital Platform, Lanka Government Cloud, and other digitalization projects carried out within govern...