Semarang (23/8) – Minister of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (Mendikbudristek) Nadiem Makarim highlighted the importance of cybersecurity in technological developments at the 2023 Kemendikbudristek Award Bug Bounty Competition in the Entrepreneurship Hall of the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Diponegoro University ( Undip). This hybrid activity is the second edition initiated by the EDU CSIRT (Education Computer Security Incident Response Team) Pusdatin Kemendikbudristek, as an effort to deal with increasingly rampant data leaks.
This activity also supports the Minister of Education Regulation No. 11 of 2022 concerning Information Security Management Systems (SMKI) within the Ministry of Education and Culture’s Electronic-Based Government System (SPBE). Hasan Chabibie, Head of the Center for Data and Information Technology (Kapusdatin) of the Ministry of Education and Culture, appreciated the success of this event with a significantly larger number of participants than the previous year. Where the number of participants registered in 2022 was recorded at 228 participants, while in 2023 the number of registered participants reached 504 participants.
This event also featured information security seminars which were held in a hybrid manner via zoom meetings, presenting speakers from the Minister of Research and Technology in the Working Cabinet (2014–2019) and also as a representative from FEB Undip Prof. Drs. H. Mohamad Nasir, as well as interesting material from the CEO of Braincorp, Romi Satria Wibawa, M.Eng., Ph.D.
As for the Deputy Dean of FEB Undip, Drs. Waskito Kawedar, M.Sc., A.kt, expressed his gratitude to the Ministry of Education and Culture for agreeing to make Undip the venue for the implementation of the 2023 Kemendikbudristek Bug Bounty Award. By holding this event which is structured with a seminar, it is hoped that it will inspire the invitees present from among students and educators who in the city of Semarang and throughout the archipelago who attended online.
The Bug Bounty Competition will be an annual activity to oversee the implementation of SPBE within the Ministry of Education and Culture. In this event, 208 reports of vulnerability findings were recorded from applications belonging to the Ministry of Education and Culture’s work unit, helping to improve applications and improve information security in the environment. It is hoped that this event will become an arena for collaboration between the Center for Data and Information of the Ministry of Education and Culture, service owners and Bug Hunters to implement SPBE within the Ministry of Education and Culture. And can be a positive culture in dealing with cyber incidents.
At the peak of the event, awards were given to 3 winners in each of the Educator categories, Student categories, and Student categories.
