Cybercrime has taken on a more lethal form in 2016 with Dark Web, Mobile Hacking, advance cyber warfare techniques (countries taking out crucial data of other countries), APT, said an expert in cyber
Cybercrime has taken on a more lethal form in 2016 with Dark Web, Mobile Hacking, advance cyber warfare techniques (countries taking out crucial data of other countries), APT, said an expert in cyber crime expert.
Over the years they had to fight against the Nigerian scams, social media frauds on Facebook. So on one hand where the crimes are increasing exponentially, the process of preventing, detecting and conviction is on the slower side.
According to Sachin Dedhia, promoter, skynetsecure.com, “From 2010 till date even a city like Mumbai, which register the highest number of cyber crimes in the country, has at the most only four proper cyber cell departments to handle all the cases with hardly any latest or updated tools though now there are many major steps big taken to remedy this.”
One of the major concerns of India, says Mr Dedhia, is “that India does not have anything of its own. “The entire software comes from the USA, (Gmail, Facebook, OS, google, whatsapp and the entire hardware comes from China (iPhone, Micromax). So even for forensics investigations of any case we have to be dependent on US servers (Gmail , Facebook, twitter) who may or may not provide the data to government agencies. Even if data is provided, it is limited in nature and many times the data comes after a good amount of time,” he added.
There is also an acute shortage of technical experts who are willing to help government agencies. If at all they are experts, there they are working for MNCs , or foreign banks who take security issues strictly, he said.
KPMG for instance, he said, has launched ‘Cyber KARE’, a tool, aimed at empowering senior management to self-asses cyber threats and gauge their current level of preparedness to combat them.
Nasscom had estimated that one million cyber crime experts in India. Dr M.S. Kamath of CGSI waxed eloquent on the need to empower the consumer and make him fully aware of his rights.
