DailyPost 93 A FESTIVAL OF IDEAS TECHNOLOGY Sirji, what an idea for sure did not generate any ideas; what it did for the business prospects of the company, I am not sure of. Sometimes, the setting & locale provides the serenity, calm, poise and energy for fresh thinking. Infosys, Mysore fits perfectly into this definition. […]
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DailyPost 91 RANSOMEWARE Ransom, the world has been aware for times immemorial, as a critical element in the money being generated out of crime. The kidnapper and the victim are two prime characters in this real life drama. The digital world transformed the way we live and interact, trade and crime. Data is the new
DailyPost 90 DATA INTEGRITY Garbage in, garbage out is the adage we grew up with since the of the initiation of computerisation in the governmental system. Data is at the centre of IT universe and at the heart of all our decision making. Integrity of data has become a complex enterprise in itself and goes
DailyPost 89 BYTES It’s raining bytes all over. The digital lingo has become the mainstay of the electronic media. Sourced either from a public source or a requested byte, the byte life cycle starts. You are assured that the developing story would be followed and you would be kept abreast. More often than not it’s
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 79 CONVERGENCE UNIVERSITY We have all gone through university education and have fond reminiscences of it but none related to out of box thinking, innovation and the like. Whatever research happens makes its way to the servers for posterity. In this exponential age, an university to keep abreast with the change, herein, Convergence University
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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 76 TANGIBLE CONFERENCING The utility or futility of official meetings have long been debated for its outcome and will continue, till the cows come home. Conferences are a notch higher, where the physical presence of the knowledgeable, is presumed to bring forth interchange of ideas and horizontal extension of a thought process which would
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DailyPost 75 INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS The traffic safety scenario is not something we can boast of. We have restricted ourselves to the traffic regulation and enforcement and road safety in real sense of the term has not taken place. Vast tracts of the Indian countryside does not have exclusive traffic police stations. In the traffic
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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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