{"id":14724,"date":"2025-11-28T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T13:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/11\/28\/advancing-cybersecurity-pakistan-cybershield-reforms\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T13:24:09","slug":"advancing-cybersecurity-pakistan-cybershield-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/11\/28\/advancing-cybersecurity-pakistan-cybershield-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Advancing Cybersecurity Pakistan with CyberShield Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Federal Minister for IT &#038; Telecom Shaza Fatima Khawaja<\/strong> addressed students and faculty at FAST National University Islamabad on government efforts to secure the country\u2019s digital frontier. Speaking at an event hosted by the FAST Public Policy and Research Society, she welcomed collaboration between government, academia and youth as central to Pakistan\u2019s cyber resilience and stressed that Cybersecurity Pakistan is now a national priority.<\/p>\n<p>The minister referenced Pakistan\u2019s Tier\u20111 ranking in the ITU Global Cybersecurity Index as evidence of a strengthened national posture and outlined the whole\u2011of\u2011nation approach driving reforms. She described how the National Cybersecurity Policy 2021, the upcoming Cybersecurity Act 2025 and the Digital Nation Act together form the backbone of policy action to protect critical infrastructure and citizen data as Cybersecurity Pakistan advances.<\/p>\n<p>Under the planned Cybersecurity Act, a National Cybersecurity Authority will be established to coordinate incident response and threat intelligence nationwide, while expansion of PkCERT and secure digital public infrastructure under the DEEP project will bolster operational readiness. The minister credited the leadership of the Prime Minister, the Field Marshal, the Cabinet and SIFC for embedding AI and technological transformation into national security plans and policy, further strengthening Cybersecurity Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Recalling the recent Marka\u2011e\u2011Haq period, the minister said coordinated cyber defence demonstrated Pakistan\u2019s ability to respond effectively in the modern digital battlefield. She noted this episode showed the cyber domain functions as a frontline of defence and that Pakistan\u2019s integrated response reflected both institutional resilience and technical capability.<\/p>\n<p>During her visit the minister toured FAST\u2011NU Islamabad\u2019s IC Design Lab and met participants of Ignite\u2019s flagship Training in IC Design &#038; Verification. She praised the hands\u2011on program run by FAST\u2011NU that trains 30 young engineers, including seven women, in a rigorous 10\u2011month curriculum equivalent to a postgraduate diploma; successful participants may pursue an MS with an additional six credit hours. The minister highlighted how such initiatives feed national talent pipelines needed for semiconductor design and secure hardware development within Cybersecurity Pakistan efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Shaza Fatima also outlined priorities for an AI\u2011driven cyber strategy that includes dark\u2011web monitoring, cloud security under the Cloud\u2011First Policy and secure identity frameworks. She emphasised that public\u2011private cooperation remains essential, citing the Digital Pakistan Cybersecurity Hackathon as a source of talent now competing on global stages such as Black Hat MEA, all contributing to the wider goals of Cybersecurity Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>As Pakistan moves to institutionalise the Cybersecurity Act and scale capacity through PkCERT, DEEP and targeted training programs, the minister said the country is positioning itself to combine secure infrastructure, technological excellence and human capital development in pursuit of a resilient digital nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister Shaza Fatima Khawaja outlines Cybersecurity Pakistan strategy at FAST-NU, detailing Cybersecurity Act 2025, NCA, PkCERT and IC training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}