The number of cyber crime cases reported in the country is minuscule and many get buried even before a complaint is made. “People should come forward and complain. They should shed the fear that if I complain my firm’s reputation would go,” said Talwant Singh, District and Sessions Judge, Delhi District Court at a seminar on Cyber Security – Prepare or Pay organised by Information Systems Audit and Control Association(ISACA) – Chennai Chapter.
“Only 0.1 per cent cases get reported. People should understand that if they come out and complain they will be saving 100 more people in the organisation,” he added.
A recent report by software security firm, Nortan, points out that in the last one year around 113 million Indians were targets of cyber crime resulting in an average loss of Rs 16,558. As per the Norton analysis, the global average loss owing to cyber crime is Rs 23,878. Citing an example, Mr. Singh explained how the server of Indian judiciary is protected. There are 75,000 computers owned by the judiciary and 6,000 staff operate these systems. “We run all our systems on Linux. Wherever we feel that we have to be in public domain we don’t use our servers. We put it on National Informatics Centre,” he said. “We are not exposing our servers to the world,” he added.
Tamil Nadu Governor K. Rosaiah, said, “The need to protect IT assets fromdestructive forces is imperative. Promoting Research and Development in cyber security is the need of the hour.”
