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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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 66 SOCIAL MEDIA- A LETHAL TOOL Undeniably, social media brought together, close people, who were left behind in our lives because of geography, once again after decades. Geography became history and connectedness became the norm, the 24/7 way. Social relationships got fostered and gained in its intensity through multimedia relationships. Pictures added life to
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DailyPost 63 DIGITAL IDENTITY It is still felt that the physical world and digital world are exclusive and different. The pace with which these worlds got integrated into one provided us with no time to feel the change, leave aside experiencing it. This is reality. Most of the social media birds have no idea as