Sri Lanka, July 22 -- The Cabinet has approved a landmark project to establish a Threat Hunting and Malware Analysis Research Lab, marking a major step toward strengthening Sri Lanka's cybersecurity infrastructure.

The proposed lab, to be set up under the Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Response Team (Sri Lanka CERT), will play a key role in identifying and responding to cyber threats, enhancing malware analysis capabilities, and building specialized human resources in the field of cybersecurity.

This initiative is crucial to the success of the country's major digitalization efforts, including the Sri Lanka Digital Identity Card Project, National Data Exchange Digital Platform, Lanka Government Cloud, and various other digital government i...