The launch of the Cyber Swatchhta Kendra under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is a good initiative as they have partnered with Quick Heal an Indian Anti Virus company. In this Public Private Partnership (PPP) initiative both will benefit and I wish Quick Heal godspeed. I hope the partnership goes beyond an MOU and providing…
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…
In a historic move that attracted comparatively little media and national attention due to the prevailing election fever; the PM Mr Narendrabhai Modi took a bold political decision to create Tri – Services Commands. A long pending move caught in inter services haggling and lack of national leadership. History will record that in this sorry…
NASSCOM when it started off was an iconic industry body, representing the aspirations and dreams of a resurgent India and its Middle class. The BPO and software industries were the poster boys of the liberalisation of the Indian Economy and NASSCOM was its visible face. Somewhere from that pedestal, it slowly transformed into an organisation that…
‘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…
For a long time cyber security experts have prescribed Information Sharing as an important practice and apparently the Government talked about this in 2006 <WOW> They call it an Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) but who is sharing and who is not! Now in 2016, some one or the other keeps talking about it,…
This is Part 3 of the coverage of the proceedings at the NCIIPC Foundation Day Conference held on 16th January 2017. You can access Part 1 and Part 2 here – these cover the keynote addresses by the Dy NSA, Chairman-NTRO, NCSC, and DG-CERT. The first panel discussion I attended brought about some pretty radical…
This is the second report on the discussions and talks at the NCIIPC Foundation Day in New Delhi on 16th January 2017. The first part covers the talk given by the Deputy NSA and can be accessed here. In this report we shall be covering the talks given by Dr Gulshan Rai, National Cyber…
The National Critical Information Infrastructure Centre (NCIIPC) was created on Jan 16 2014, under the NTRO, and celebrated it’s third foundation day with a conference at India Habitat Center in New Delhi. The author had the privilege to attend the event and listen to the leaders of national cyber security. This blog will be in…
