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second half trainer covered key learn new skillset beyond MS Excel significantly reduce or eliminate
aspects of power dressing, five P’s and the broader MS Office suite vulnerabilities in software before
of corporate dressing and personal using R language focusing on deployment. During the session,
grooming for both male and female the tidyverse framework of trainer briefed the participants
participants. This training sessions packages developed for the R about the importance of secure
were conducted by Mr. Yasir Arafat, language. This set of tools has coding in software development
a renowned corporate trainer on vastly eased the data science and its significance as a defense
September 26 & 27, 2022. workflow in the R language and has against the accidental
greatly enhanced the scope and introductions of security

appeal of this language in the data vulnerabilities. The trainer also
Foreign Trade science community. These libraries discussed secure coding practices
Regulations-Pakistan are well-known for transforming the are critical because they remove
way R is used and both code
software
exploited
commonly
Single Window readability and processing speeds vulnerabilities and prevent
This one-day training was are well-known for these packages. cyberattacks from happening. The
conducted in physical environment During the session participants session was conducted by Mr.
at NIBAF Karachi Campus on learned to import data through Rahim Hasnani, External Trainer
September 6, 2022. Mr. Furqan the readr and readxl package, from M/s. Xcelliti Pvt. Ltd. on
Ahmed, Deputy Director, Exchange transform and tidy through September 21-22, 2022 and
Policy Department, SBP conducted the dplyr and tidyr packages, attended by IT Professional from
the training. Participants learned handle dates and strings SBP.
about basics of Pakistan Single using lubridate and stringr packag
Window(PSW), PSW Act and Rules, es, and design elegant graphics in
new elements in PSW for traders the R language using Cyber Security Training
and bankers, trade information the ggplot2 package.
portal and its uses, PSW vs WeboC
,PSW for manual shipments ,trade Cybersecurity awareness training
restrictions & current economic Training on used to be an area that only
situation, sanction compliance and Secure Code specific high tech industries cared
related issues, compliance risks for about. But with the rapid increase
bankers, problems, solutions and A two-day customized training in cybercrimes in the past couple of
way forward etc. The program was program on Secure Code offered years, organizations cannot afford
attended by participants from SBP by Karachi campus with the to stay ignorant of the colossal
and Commercial Banks. objective to enhance the skills of IT damage that a single employee
professionals involved in software
could unintentionally cause
development and implementing through lack of awareness on
Introductory Data cyber security protocols. The
Science with R program was designed to
among
awareness
create
This two-day course was held at developers as many are mostly
NIBAF Karachi on September 22- unware of what secure code
23, 2022 and conducted by Mr. Ijlal looks like and the 1,000
Ahmad Haqqani, Deputy Director, categories of security mistakes
Research Department, SBP The that developers are prone to
program was structured to be mak. By educating IT
equally relevant for both novice and professionals on secure
expert participants and help them alternatives, organizations can
take proactive steps to help