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How the Government can participate?
Now the question is what organization, people, and above all the government can do to lessen the
impact of cyber crime. Fewer steps in the direction of cyber defense from the government side can
help a lot people & enterprises against developing cyber threats.

Governments must make a start on three front ends to support enterprise, by taking more lively
approach against cyber attacks:

• Encourage a broader understanding of the business risk.
• Recognize and deal with the cultural aspects of the issue.
• Engage academia and businesses in formulating a mutual response.

Encourage a Broader Understanding of the Business Risk:
Many businesses do have a lack of understanding about the extent of the reach of cyber crime
and its impact. A huge part of major company’s value seems insubstantial and vulnerable to
cyber threats. Even information assets and physical assets are probably vulnerable against
cyber attack. Recent cyber attacks have shown us that weakness in physical and information
asset, which can bring drastic damage to organizations. Therefore, measuring and determining
individual business risk can make a great impact on business revenue, it is an effective way to
disclose threats to IT management. To encourage businesses, a non-technical language can
give confidence in recognizing, discoursing, and addressing the risks that companies face.

Recognize and Deal with the Cultural Aspects of the Issue:
Domestic approach to cyber issues, intellectual property rights, and fair competition plays a
major role in forming cyber culture. There should be encouragement in building a strong
security culture within the business and employees; they should be aware of protecting the
corporate information by playing an active role in their job. There should be a balanced
approach between control and liberty in cyberspace. Government should understand that cyber
attacks are carried out by young talented personalities. Their skills should be realized as a part
of the nationwide response to cyber attack and make them realize about their responsibilities
toward society.

Engage Academia and Businesses in formulating Mutual Response:
Government can encourage collaboration with private sectors, universities, and international
countries for better response against cyber threats by sharing the information with them and
make confident about revealing security concerns to the government. Government can
collaborate with universities as they can identify and develop talented hackers to build a
defensive program against cyber attacks. Even government can join hands with other countries
to share their data, which help to identify and understand the cybercrime in a practical manner.

Besides the above steps, there are a few suggestions that could really help businesses to diminish
the cybercrime as well making individuals aware of it.

• The Government should build effective and single point access to report cyber crime and
enhance the level of local police response for cyber victims.

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