DailyPost 83 HACKTIVISTS To my repeated questions in my lectures on Cyber Security as to who is at the centre of the digital world , the answer is Hacker with an astounding regularity. This speaks of the psyche we are in. Hacktivism got added to this phraseology in recent years as the act of hacking […]
DailyPost 82 COMPROMISED, YET AGAIN! The recent news of Yahoo breach of 1 billion accounts compromised is the biggest in its infamous history. It throws up completely unpalatable questions both for the users and for the regulatory mechanism. With every subsequent breach, the new normal, is pushed further, which has been happening with an alarming
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DailyPost 78 DATA – ENCRYPTED ALWAYS The process of transforming data from plaintext to ciphertext is encryption and had been used since times immemorial. Today, computer based encryptions hold the very key to our existence in wide & varied ways from national security to credit card frauds. For the citizens, fully secure banking transactions is
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DailyPost 74 NATIONAL HOMELAND SECURITY BLUEPRINT The passage of the US PATRIOT ACT and subsequent creation of Department for Homeland Security, DHS, post 9/11 marks a tectonic shift in the response to terrorism, legally, administratively and operationally with a clear cut vision and the capability to deliver. I discussed about its Indian avatar in a
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DailyPost 73 TECHNOLOGY DEFICIT IN POLICING – CHALLENGES POSED BY COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY Communication technology has brought immense benefits to the world by completely transforming communication to real time and dynamic and with the data / information flow becoming *instantaneous*,it has brought in exponential change in all spheres of our existence; banking, retail, stock market, social interaction
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DailyPost 69 CYBER SECURITY INTEGRATED SYSTEMS MINDSET – THE WAY FORWARD An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is retribution and a product for the expressed requirements is a solution. In the days of complex legal, technical systems both have outlived its utility. We live in the world of integrated systems
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DailyPost 60 BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY- THE EMERGING TECHNOLOGY TO WATCH From drones to 3D printing to nanotechnology, emerging technologies are providing completely out of the box solutions to knotty requirements. Of the emerging the one to watch is Blockchain technology, which is well known manifestation, Bitcoin. It’s a technology touted to make sweeping changes of the same magnitude
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DailyPost 59 CYBER SECURITY – THE HUMAN RESOURCE CHALLENGE- THE DATA SCIENTIST Every roadmap has a gestation period while the MTech courses get underway in search of a vibrant ecosystem, the challenges of the day have to be met convincingly. Data is nearly doubling every year. Hadoop and similar technologies can be used by professionals who
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DailyPost 58 CYBER SECURITY- THE HUMAN RESOURCE CHALLENGE The Cyber Security landscape has transformed for the worse in last three years. Cyber Security Policy 2013 envisaged a requirement of 5,00,000 Cyber Security professionals in the ensuing five years. With 2017 just a few weeks away, the process is yet to start in right earnestness. Quality
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DailyPost 57 INFORMATION WAR/FARE The battle for your mind is underway. A world war is raging all over and that is not the war on terror, it is the information war. Only people perceptions matter in a broadly democratic world order and they want you on their side. In the Information Age information has become the biggest
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DailyPost 53 IS COMPLIANCE JUST AN ISSUE? Treating compliance, standards and certification as mere compliance issues is fraught with dangers that negatively affects performance, user comfort, security and can land you on the wrong side of the law. Left to the fate of the consultants, outsourced agents and unprofessional / ill staffed compliance staff, most
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