New Delhi

NASSCOM, the premier trade body and 'voice' of the IT software and service industry in India, today released "India Cyber Cop Awards 2005: Compilation of cases" in association with KPMG. Hon'ble Minister for Information Technology - Mr. Dayanidhi Maran released the book at the NASSCOM seminar on Cyber Crime: Today and Tomorrow, in New Delhi today.

The book is a compendium of investigations which were nominated for the India Cyber Cop Award 2005. The awards were specially instituted to recognise and reward law enforcers resolving cyber crimes in the country. This is an honour that is conferred upon police officials not only for their commendable work but also to bring awareness of better and useful investigative skills in resolving cyber crimes.

Kiran Karnik, President NASSCOM, said “The increasing use of IT in our day to day lives has brought both new challenges and threats. Amongst the most significant is the security threat - including data theft, piracy, hacking, identity theft, violation of intellectual property rights, etc. Such cyber crimes are on the rise around the world. While India continues to be amongst the safest places from this point of view, there is need to be continually vigilant and mount special efforts to fight these illegal activities. In addition to strengthening the legal infrastructure, creating an effective enforcement framework including training officers - which is currently underway, creating awareness on the impending threat of cyber crime is also equally vital.”

“It is with this objective that NASSCOM has put together this compendium of investigations, to showcase work done by dedicated police officials in India and share best practices that can be adopted to prevent such mishaps in organizations. We hope this will be of use to police officers, fraud management professionals and those interested in knowing about trends in cyber crimes in India”, he added.

Commenting on the release of the book, Pradeep Udhas, Executive Director, KPMG said, “Cyber security is a combined responsibility of corporates, judiciary, law makers, enforcement agencies (like Police), associations (like NASSCOM), consulting organizations and most importantly individuals behaving as responsible citizens. This book is a pioneering example of industry joining hands with law enforcement agencies towards combating crime in society. The book shall provide practical insights on how cyber crimes happen and the guilty get punished”

The book has detailed 16 cyber crime cases dealing with issues ranging across issues like data theft, creating fake profiles, online stock exchange fraud, cyber sexual harassment, misuse of confidential customer information and theft and sale of proprietary data, among others.

About NASSCOM India Cyber Cop Award
The Mumbai Police and NASSCOM jointly instituted the Cyber Cop Award, during Cyber Safety Week 2005. 'India Cyber Cop Award' was instituted and announced to encourage police professionals involved in investigating cyber crimes cases in the country. This award is intended not just to recognise, reward and honour law enforcers doing commendable work, but also bring awareness of better and useful investigative skills in resolving cyber crimes.

This book, a compendium of cases that were nominated for the award, is intended to fulfill the above objective. The awards were presented at the closing ceremony of the Mumbai Cyber Safety Week 2005 on 26 November 2005.

The Cyber Safety Week (CSW) is conducted to spread the message about need for cyber safety and IT security across all user communities. The CSW ran for the third consecutive year in 2005 and has become a national model for public private partnership. CSW comprises of various events and workshops that educate participants on how systems can be compromised and where complacency in IT security can turn dangerous.

Release of the cyber crime case studies book by Mr Dayanidhi Maran. Mr Kiran Karnik and Mr Pradeep Udhas look on.	The book is released formally.
The Landscaping Session. Mr Saurabh Srivastava shares his thoughts, as Mr Nandkumar Saravade and Dr Gulshan Rai listen.	Mr Dayanidhi Maran talks about the government response to cyber crime.
The spellbound audience.	A glimpse of the keen participants.
Mr Sridhar Ranganathan talks of frauds in telecom sector.	Panelists of the session on cyber crimes in different verticals. (L to R: M/s Sridhar Ranganathan, Akhilesh Tuteja, Nandkumar Saravade and Deepak Jacob)
Panel on the way forward (L to R: M/s Praveen Anand, Talwant Singh, Prasanto Roy, sunil Mehta and Deepankar Sanwalka)

Source: www.nasscom.in