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Bangalore gets first cyber lab
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 04 January 2007, 18:30 IST
Bangalore: India's IT city will soon have a second cyber police station, informs K. R. Srinivasan, the state's director general and inspector general of police.
The Bangalore cyber lab is formed jointly with industry body-NASSCOM and Canara Bank. Srinivasan explained at the launch about the need to strictly implement cyber policing in the state as computerization in various aspects of life is at its peak. "We want the new cyber station to be considered a benchmark station.Karnataka police has the unique distinction of being pioneers in cyber patrolling in the country," he added. On the training front Srinivasan mentioned that along with training for banking officials, income tax officials and other user groups could be trained.
M. B. N. Rao, CMD, Canara Bank focused his talk on the challenges faced by the banking industry due to various transaction channels for ATMs and net banking. "Today as we see a rise in e-commerce transactions there are threats to even activities like e-booking of airline tickets," he says.
Nandakumar Saravade, NASSCOM's director for cyber security informed that NASSCOM's fourth cyber lab in Pune would be functional soon. It already has two such labs operational in Mumbai and Thane with the third one being in Bangalore.
Saravade, a serving IPS officer on deputation to NASSCOM said that Bangalore would also host a "cyber safety week". He said that as a part of its outreach program, NASSCOM was linking up with vulnerable groups like kids and parents to help in addressing issues like internet monitoring. He said that already 1,000 persons had been trained at the cyber lab in Mumbai while a similar number was planned for Bangalore.
Each batch which would be trained at the Bangalore cyber lab would have 21 persons of which 15 would be police personnel. On the partnership with Canara Bank, Saravade said that NASSCOM was looking at introducing e-learning lessons targeting police stations besides having more public-private partnerships (PPP) on the lines of what Canara Bank has done.
To additionally support cyber labs the Union Cabinet (on October 16 2006) has approved the amendment to the IT Act 2000. NASSCOM worked with the government to evolve recommendations for amendments to further strengthen the Indian IT Act 2000. The recommendations are focused around protecting overseas customer data and tightening the punishment for defaulters. This will help in better handling of cyber crime by enforcement authorities.