Today was the second (as well as last) day of conference on Homeland Security organised by FICCI, Delhi. Yesterday’s welcome address at conference was given by Dr. A. Didar Singh who is Secretary General at FICCI. Today’s session was chaired by Dr. Vivek Lall who is Co- Chair at FICCI Homeland Security Committee and also holds the post of President and CEO at New Ventures, Reliance Industries.
In the initial half of the conference there were 4 speakers, namely:
1. Mr. Muktesh Chander, Special Commissioner – Traffic, Delhi Police
2. Mr. Zori Kor, Vice President, ASERO Consulting Services, Israel.
3. Dr. Gandhi Kaza, Chairman, Truth Labs.
4. Mr. Sunny Vaghela, Director & CTO, TechDefence Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
Dr. Muktesh Chander brought various important points while giving his presentation, like how cyber crime is costing huge loss to Indian economy, how certain countries are involved in cyber crimes against other nations etc. While discussing the matters of cyber security he mentioned that Section 70 of IT Act as amended in 2008, the government can declare any computer resource to be a protected system if it directly or indirectly affects the facility of Critical Information Infrastructure. Sub-Section 3 of Section 70 of IT Act states that, if any person tries of access to a protected system against the provision of this section shall be punished with imprisonment and fine. Continue reading
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