DailyPost 446 DATA PROTECTION FRAMEWORK The Supreme Court of India, recently declared Privacy as a fundamental right. It left it to the Expert Committee under Hon’ble Justice B.N. Srikrishna to work out the modalities. For the purpose of designing a carefully structured regime of data protection, a ”White Paper of the Committee of Experts on […]
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DailyPost 438 REVOLVING DOORS & BACKDOORS While the Privacy debate rages at the highest pitch, the companies guaranteeing privacy from the rooftops, the hapless user is super confident of his data, the harsh reality is either data is passing through revolving doors between govt. & the corporates or the hardware & the software have back
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DailyPost 437 CYBER POLICE & CYBER SOLDIERS In a recent interview the CEO of Checkpoint stressed the need of Cyber Police & Cyber Soldiers. He meant that these agencies perform the same tasks & carry the same responsibilities which their counterpart do for the physical world. We literally live in the cyber world today. But
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DailyPost 436 NSA : Do they know all? Lead by the National Security Agency, NSA, US’s 17 intelligence agencies see the world differently. Shrouded in secrecy, with an estimated US spending of $ 72 billions on intelligence, more than rest of the world combined, is an information regime, for accessing, collecting & analysing every single
DailyPost 432 CAN WE SALVAGE PRIVACY? Edward Snowden ripped off the lid of Govt. surveillance in the US, the shock US & the world has not been able to recover from. The start of the privacy movement will remain to be Edward Snowden’s lasting legacy. To call his leaks as the 9/11 of Privacy sounds
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DailyPost 420 TRANSACTING DIGITAL IDENTITY In an all pervasive digital world, everybody has a digital identity. The primary is the official databases, from where identity theft is done as in the case of US Federal Database of 23 million employees. The other is digital / virtual identity as created in various profiles; Google, LinkedIn, Instagram,
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DailyPost 417 CCTV PROTOCOL CCTVs have become all pervasive, for good, bad or the ugly, it is here to stay. These networks provide the live & video footages generally of public places, as our personal pictures & videos. The huge demand & so small to big projects are developing as a jungle growth, not able
DailyPost 410 BITCOIN – THE EVOLVING STORY The current exchange rate of 1 bitcoin $7157.14. This explains the strength of bitcoin & other altcoins which number at around 1150 . Altcoins are cryptocurrencies other that bitcoin. The acceptability of bitcoins and like is increasing with every passing day. Suffice to stay, it is there to
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DailyPost 404 CYBER CRIME – THE INVESTIGATION ANGLE Whatever be the genre of crime, the capability of the investigative agencies & that of the whole criminal justice system in that regard, decides the nature of control we have over it. While the cyber crime becoming all pervasive, the response to it is still in a
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DailyPost 403 THE CISO STORY CISOs have slowly become an integral part of our digital landscape. The consequent impact on the enterprises does not seem to be visible. Enterprises seem to be as vulnerable as ever & their climb down on the vulnerability index is yet to start. The surface area and the threat vectors
DailyPost 402 LONE WOLF ATTACK Sept the 11th, 2001, was a defining moment in the history of terrorism & of the modern world. The trajectory terrorism has taken since then has defied all rational explanation & also imagination. From group of highly motivated, well guided, based on a neat plan transforming an aircraft into a
