Chairman SCCI Departmental Committee on Media/Cyber Crime Umer Khalid disclosed this while addressing a meeting here on Sunday. Committee Secretary Muhammad Salman Mir, senior members Kashif Almas, Muhammad Ayub Khan, Abid Hussain Mehdi, Arif Mehmood Sheikh, Khwaja Rehan Naseem, Mohsin Gull and victims of hacking incidents also attended the meeting.
Umer Khalid asked the exporters to upgrade the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure in their factories and upgrade their cyber security systems, besides adopting advanced IT skills to avert such incidents. Committee’s Secretary Salman Mir told the meeting the SCCI would soon host an awareness-raising seminar and international exporters would be invited to give detailed briefing about computer hacking, data breach laws and the reasons behind targeting of exporters by hackers.