By Sue-Ann Wayow
THE Supermarket Association of Trinidad and Tobago (SATT) intends to keep meeting with the Cyber Security Incident Reporting Team of Trinidad and Tobago (TTCSIRT) to discuss issues of cyber-attack.
The first of such meetings were held recently following the attack on Massy Stores network.
SATT in a press release on Wednesday said it held a virtual meeting with over 50 people including expert panelists from TTCSIRT Anish Bachu and Vivek Ramcharitar.
Joining the panel team were Director Laresa Technologies Solutions Limited Revan Teelucksingh and resident SATT IT management consultant Kyron Leopold.
SATT stated, “The panel noted that the evolving sphere of cybersecurity posed difficult challenges which needed to be addressed in the wake of increasingly sophisticated attacks that now placed the supermarket sector in a position where it must evolve to meet a baseline level of defensive security measures.”
The presentation laid out by the visiting experts from the Ministry of National Security detailed an overview of how the attacks originate, what measures of security were critical as well as their own response machinery to these cyberattacks, the association stated.
About the meeting, SATT said, “It was a pivotal moment in the relationship between both entities and the supermarket industry as a whole. The engaging dialogue between members of the SATT and TT-CSIRT laid a promising foundation for the implementation of appropriate cyber security controls within the sector.”
