Abstract:
The information security threat landscape is changing dramatically, and modern attacks are more sophisticated with highly targeted techniques. The rate at which adversaries change strategies to harm a system's resources is greater than those to defend the organization's system resources, making defense difficult. The National Technology Framework gives a direction to protect the entire nation from cyber threats and risks. This framework analyzes the existing cybersecurity measures and proposes the security framework under International Telecommunication (ITU) guidelines. The proposed framework is based on five pillars: legal, technical, organizational, capacity building, and cooperation measures, and this is also called the global cybersecurity agenda. The NTF aims to define and assign roles and responsibilities to the national stakeholders to protect national cyberspace. The NTF counts on prevailing coordinating structures and legislations to encourage resilience, integration, and synchronization across several areas of responsibility and jurisdictions. Such coordinating structures include the critical infrastructure sector, public-private organizations, law enforcement task forces, government, and governance boards. As a national doctrine, NTF presents a consolidated approach for aligning security tasks across the five domains' legal, technical, organizational, and capacity building and coordination structures. It encourages the mutual understanding of cybersecurity, eventually ensuring secure cyberspace and interoperability, efficient information sharing, and the efficacy of security-related activities nationwide to increase Pakistan's cybersecurity ranking.
