Review on Sri Lanka Infrastructure for Network Security

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Review on Sri Lanka Infrastructure for Network
Security

• Champake Mendis
• Assistant Director (Information Documentation)
• Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of
• Sri Lanka

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Review on Sri Lanka Infrastructure for Network
Security

• INTRODUCTION
• CURRENT STATUS OF NETWORK SECURITY IN
  INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
  
• NETWORK STRUCTURE IN SRI LANKA
• DETAIL OVERVIEW OF COUNTRY SPECIFIC NETWORKS
• CONCLUSION

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ICT Infrastructure
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ICT Infrastructure Fixed Mobile Telephony
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Future Marketing Openings in Sri Lanka

• Monopoly was over by 5th August 2002
• Full Liberalization and Deregulation
• Remove entry barriers to provide dedicated
  Telecom Network
  
• - Issue class licenses
• - Individual licenses
• Class licencing Networks with limited rights
  /obligation without scare resources
  
• Individual licencing Networks with comprehensive
  rights/obligations using scare resources
  

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Future Plans of Government
New National Communication Policy for Convergence

• Creating a modern and efficient communication
  infrastructure taking in to account of
  Telecommunication, Information Technology
  Convergence of Media
• Develop a new convergence Act, which will
  include Telecommunications, ICT and media

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TRCSL - things what we do

• Radio Frequency Spectrum Management
• Provision of Payphone Services for Public use
• Telephone and Radio equipment Vendors' Licences
• Telephone and Radio equipment Type Approvals
• Public Awareness Programmes
• The Administrator for International
  Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Asia- Pacific
  Telecommunity (APT)
  

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TRCSL Way Forward

• Telecommunications Reforms
• Liberalisation of the Telecom industry
• Issuance of new External Gateway Operator (EGO)
  licences
  
• Implementation of a phased out 10-digit number
  change
  
• Issuance of Radio frequency spectrum in the 1800
  Mhz.
  
• Liberalisation of undersea cable capacity of
  SEA-ME-WE submarine cables
  
• TRC Customer Service and Advisory Centres'
• Active Role in World Summit on Information
  Society(WSIS)

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TRCSL and e-Sri Lanka

• Building a Hard Infrastructure - providing
  affordable telecommunications services for
  various users, and ensuring local and global
  connectivity is building upon the present
  competition-centred communication policies and
  the establishment of the independence, effective
  governance and enforcement authority of the
  Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri
  Lanka (TRCSL).

Broadcasting
Telecommunications
IT
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• CURRENT STATUS OF NETWORK SECURITY
• IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

• Privacy protection
• Digital signatures and electronic contracts
• Certification and Certification Authorities

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NETWORK STRUCTURE IN SRI LANKA

• Current status of Network Security in Sri Lanka

Foreign Government ITU APT
GOVERNMENT OF SRI LANKA
TRCSL CENTRAL BANK CINTEC
VERISIGN (USA)
ASP
Subscribers
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NETWORK STRUCTURE IN SRI LANKA

• Legal cover from Telecommunications Act

• Telecommunications Act as Act No 25 of 1991,
• as amended by the Sri Lanka Telecommunications
  (Amendment) Act No 27 of 1996)
  
• Section 49 - Altering of Data/Message
• Section 54 - intercepting a message
• Section 58 - tenders for transmission of
• any telecommunication office any message of an
  indecent, obscene, seditious, scurrilous,
  threatening or grossly offensive character
  
• Section 60 - fraudulently retains

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NETWORK STRUCTURE IN SRI LANKA

• Legal Cover from Licence Conditions

clause 20.2, it is prohibited to carry
objectionable, obscene, unauthorised or any othe
r content, messages or communications through th
e Licensed System
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Impediment in Infrastructure Development

• Infrastructure facilities are usually provided
  free of charge
  
• magnitude of the capital requirement, the long
  gestation period, and the high risks
  
• profit seeking objective of private enterprise
• inter-generational resource transfer

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FURTHER INFORMATION

• Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri
  Lanka
  
• 276 Elvitigala Mawatha, Colombo 08, Sri Lanka
• (941) 684865
• (941) 689341
• champake_at_sri.lanka.net or dgtsl_at_sri.lanka.net
• www.trc.gov.lk

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Review on Sri Lanka Infrastructure for Network
Security

• Thank you