‘America First’ the new American President Trump announced and the whole world went into a collective gasp as if President Trump had committed blasphemy. That is what countries are for right ? To give a competitive advantage for their own citizens.. I love President Trump; with him at the helm India has a chance at rolling back…
So Hitachi Payment Systems came out with an Admission of Compromise (AoC) that they had a data breach which (possibly) led to the Great Indian Debit Card Security Disaster of October2016 . Please note that we want to avoid the use of the word “hack” because people are associating it with malicious intent (or action) whereas…
Why I would not back up a cyber command seems a presumptuous title, as after all I am a mere citizen and retired soldier. Another retired officer from my alma mater NDA recently told me over beer, that we were child labour and our DNA cannot change having been in uniform from the teens. But…
Data the new oil, it was only a matter of time… Ever since the Snowden revelations; when the extent of the global surveillance grid run by the NSA was revealed; the world started taking precautions with the European Courts striking down principles of safe harbour. Countries like China, Russia, Brazil etc started tightening their laws and ensuring…
Sometime back we did a quick survey asking infosec people about their expectations from CERT-In and we got a number of inputs. This is being shared here and this is the second in the series, covering Certifications. The follow up blogs will address issues like audit, responsibility, guidance, empanelment etc – keep watching!
Billions of rupees / Thousands of crores have been swindled by these rich rats who have run away to foreign lands living life on the spoils of their crime. Maybe some day these rats will be hauled back and I shall like to be the first to throw shit at their face. Then of course there are many others who are still in India and have gamed the system – the law seems to be catching up with them. This is a list I keep putting together.
Pic courtesy: Wikimedia.org As a taxpayer shouldn’t we pay the entire defence budget to the USA or Russia to defend our borders? Now that should save the national exchequer all the financial woes of OROP and in one fell swoop do away with corruption in arms sales. Can national security be outsourced ? Now this is a…
There are all types of initiatives to manage and address cyber threats and risks, and they don’t seem to be effective (considering the panic that even a website defacement can create). It is apparent we are doing something wrong and it is time to sit back and take a hard look at the path traversed and (high time) make a course correction. We at IW, proposed a Central Command!
.. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has set up a new subsidiary for IT and Cybersecurity The following is quoted from the official information release: “Reserve Bank of India (RBI), a statutory organization established under the RBI Act, 1934 is in the process of setting up of an Information Technology (IT) Subsidiary to take care…
The CpCC topic for the day was : “Privacy from national, personal and business perspective; and fallout”
