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Law enforcement agencies need to be trained to counter cyber crimes: Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Mr Anil Baijal

Aug 22, 2019


       Draft of National Cyber Security Strategy 2020 to be ready in next two months: Lt. Gen. Dr Rajesh Pant, National Cyber Security Coordinator

 

NEW DELHI, 22 August 2019: Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Mr Anil Baijal today flagged the need for hands-on training of law enforcement agencies and a coherent global strategy to counter the alarming rise in cyber crimes across the world.

 

Speaking at the two-day conference on 'Homeland Security 2019 - Innovation Led Cyber Crime Management', organised by FICCI jointly with Vivekananda International Foundation,Mr Baijal said that there is an acute shortage of required skills in the law enforcement officials regarding cyber crime intelligence collection, data analytics, investigating techniques and digital forensics.

 

"There is a need for more practical, hands-on training which is based on simulated environment. And, given the volumes involved, methodologies should be scalable," he said, adding that cyber crime, which knows no boundaries, needed a coordinated and collaborative approach across various states and different countries.

 

Mr Baijal said that a coherent, collaborative, global strategy is needed for countering transnational crimes like cyber crime. For this, he recommended revision of existing legal framework at national and international levels to adjust to the changing realities including recalibration of instruments like letters rogatory and extradition requests.

 

Lt. Gen. Dr Rajesh Pant, National Cyber Security Coordinator, National Security Council Secretariat, Government of India said that the average loss due to cyber crime globally is 2.5% of global GDP, which translates to a loss of more than Rs 200,000 crore for India, highlighting the seriousness of the issue.

 

"While we are presently working under the cyber security policy of 2013, we have already set up a taskforce for creating the National Cyber Security Strategy 2020. In the next two months, we expect to have a draft ready, put it up with the Cabinet in December and come out with a new strategy in January-February," Dr Pant said.

 

Dr Arvind Gupta, Director, Vivekananda International Foundation and former Deputy National Security Advisor said that predictive policing should be incorporated into the police forces so that the police should be able to predict based on the huge amount of data and with the tools and technologies that are available.

 

Mr Rahul Chaudhry, Chair, FICCI Committee on Homeland Security said, "We can no longer be in a delusion that cyber security threats dwell exclusively in abstract cyberspaces or software. Hardware can be seriously compromised."

 

Mr Vidur Gupta, Partner, EY said, "India needs to develop a strong cyber crime management ecosystem with concerted effort from law enforcement agencies (LEAs), academia and industryto mitigate cyber crimes. Only such a concerted effort can tackle the myriad cyber crime threats that we face as a society, and can thereby, provide assurance and trust to India's economy."

 

Mr Rajan Luthra, Co-Chair, FICCI Homeland Security Committee said that there is an urgent need for continuous collaboration and active participation for cyber crime management. Innovation in the fast-changing cyber environment would have to be a key element of any cyber crime management programme, he added.

 

FICCI-EY report on 'Innovation Led Cyber Crime Management' was released at the event. 

 

Highlights of FICCI-EY Report on 'Innovation Led Cyber Crime Management':

 

  1. Formulation of a standard cybercrime taxonomy, which is to be followed by state and central LEAs, to homogenize the cybercrime management in the nation.
  2. Cybercrime research and test beds to be built for investigations' experimentation, introducing LEAs to simulated crime scenarios for effective investigation and closure of cases.
  3. A formal institutional framework to be built focusing on resolving challenges involving cybercrime threat intelligence sharing through collaboration between central and state police.
  4. Revisiting current law of the land such as the IT Act and IPC with respect to emerging use cases, crime and technology scenarios.
  5. Constitute a focused task force to study dark web ecosystem and present its findings to central and state functions.
  6. A joint India-based taskforce may be formulated where police from all the member nations jointly address international issues pertaining to cybercrimes and India can derive the benefit from it.
  7. Charting out next generation technological strategy to be leveraged by central and state LEA functions.
  8. Setting up of central and state technology analytic units which would act as information technology functions for LEAs, enabling accelerated investigation and thwarting cybercrimes at national level.
  9. Setting up of state and central centers of excellences (CoEs) equipping LEAs with investigative capabilities and aiding in continuous capacity building.
  10. Setting up of cybercrime forensics laboratories in each state to address the challenge of delay in examination of case data.
  11. Setting up of cyber police cadre in the formal police recruitment system.

 

 

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