DailyPost 2884 CHANGE HEALTHCARE THOROUGHLY HACKED! The more we change the less we do. Nothing much has changed. This is precisely the case in cyber security, even in an age where truism is ‘Getting hacked is the new normal’. Simultaneously, the battle for reclaiming personally identifiable data, PII, is raging. There are quite a few […]
DailyPost 2883 WHERE ARE OUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES? When have you last met your elected representative? If you ever have. When has he visited you last? Or visited your area or your professional group or addressed any issue of the community? The simple question is, have you been impacted in any way by your elected representatives?
DailyPost 2882 POLITICAL POLICING The recent rape and murder of the a Kolkata medico has again thrown the spotlight on the nature of policing and governance happening in most parts of the country. A step further, what do you make out of the nature of investigation done in this case, till the time it was
DailyPost 2881 RECLAIMING SECURITY… Has insecurity for the common man has become a foregone conclusion in this country. Have PG accommodations, to college campuses to hospitals to coaching centers and any number of other locations become so insecure that the criminals operate with unprecedented impunity? Then we have the normal rigmarole of protests demanding justice
DailyPost 2780 ASSURANCES INC. If something sells thick and fast in this country then it is an assurance. It is the hottest circulating currency of the ruling elite; the political class, political executive, permanent executive and any organization or person who has any capability to make a change. That nearly all the assurances have been
DailyPost 2879 CRIMES WAITING TO HAPPEN… The general tenor of conversation, narratives and debates are in favour of the fact that crimes can happen anywhere, what is more critical is the response of the authorities to it. Top quality investigation and conviction. The same logic in now on in the Kolkata medico rape and murder
DailyPost 2878 DEMOCRATIC FEUDALISM The onset of democracy on 15th of August, 1947, was a watershed moment in the history of India. What is expected in such momentous times is that the country would transform beyond recognition. Transformation of physical infrastructure is the easiest to happen, whatever great stories we might build around it. The
DailyPost 2877 THE EPITOME OF DISCRETION People who have experienced lives where delivery in entirety has been the touchstone, would scarcely believe that widespread discretion can ever be properly used. Discretion as a mass scale of gigantic scale is inversely proportional to delivery and success and more so of development and growth, leave aside the
DailyPost 2876 THE LAND OF THE LAW… While we refer to law, we call it the law of the land. It is also often repeated that law will take its own course. This presupposes law as a tool for delivery of justice, created with utmost objectivity and administered with only that objectivity in mind. Law
DailyPost 2875 THIRD PARTY RELATIONSHIP EXPLOITATION While the cyber security world’s attention remains focussed on ransomware; its variants, and it being delivered as a service, there have been many more disturbing trends which are becoming more and more conspicuous now. The adversaries also continue to develop cloud consciousness with increased use of cloud, and major
DailyPost 2874 CYBER SECURITY – STAKEHOLDERS VIEW The oft repeated question in today’s management parlance is whether we are on the same page? A reply to this question in the affirmative means that at least the problem or the issue is understood correctly and action as warranted can be proposed thereupon. There is general acceptance
