An important consequence of IT awareness and its global widespread is its use for all valuable information whether it is storage or transmission. From an individual to a nation, it is impossible to avoid having some digital assets. Starting form an identity card to most secret national security data, today all is processed, stored and then transmitted in form of digits. So, in this context it seems normal to worry about the unauthorized exposure, tampering, or any other illegal use of this data. Cyber security is all about the techniques and methods along with a range of appliances to give data owner a feeling of security. IT security industry has become a multi-billion dollar business with the ever increasing threats versus solutions and co-coordinated attacks on communication systems all over the world.

In this context when we look at Pakistan, we find that the IT systems and networks are being rapidly deployed. There is dire scarcity of the technical skillful hands who can resolve our growing ICT (Information, Communication, Telecommunication) infrastructure management and security problems. Unfortunately, there have not been any serious efforts to fill in this wide gap of national requirement apart from some courses here and there. Therefore, a centre of excellence of all cyber security related technologies and skills at one place is an absolute need of the day. The establishment of this centre will not only help to meet nation’s need of skilled professionals but also will bring name, prestige and revenues to SZABIST being pioneer of this centre.

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*Al-Haytham
Al-Haytham (b. 965), also known as Alhazen, in his work on number theory, seems to have been the first to attempt to classify all even perfect numbers (numbers equal to the sum of their proper divisors) as those of the form where is prime. Al-Haytham is also the first person that we know to state Wilson's theorem, namely that if is prime then is divisible by itself only. Joseph Louis Lagrange gave the first proof in 1771 and it should be noticed that it is more than 750 years after al-Haytham before number theory surpasses this achievement of Islamic mathematics. It is worth mentioning that all modern information security protocols and algorithms are based upon prime numbers theory and their characteristics.