Gurgaon Police geared up to fight cybercrime

Gurgaon, India: With an objective to strengthen the cyber security system of the Millennium city of Gurgaon, ITM University organized a workshop on ‘Cyber Security’ for the Gurgaon Police on 11 July 2015 at their university campus in Gurgaon. The day long workshop was attended by more than 60 Police officials including those of Cyber Crime Cell and the newly formed ATM Fraud Cell members.

Gurgaon, with a high concentration of computer savvy people, continues to witness cybercrime incidents like online frauds and misuse of ATM (debit/credit) cards. The Gurgaon police have received 801 cyber crime complaints till July 3, 2015. Most of the cases are related to net banking, credit/debit card fraud, hacking of e-mails and cheating through mobile phones. Taking into account the seriousness of this issue a comprehensive training module was designed by ITM for the Gurgaon police. The topics covered in the workshop included Cryptography in secure Electronic transactions, cyber security e-banking frauds & remedies, Social Engineering with SSL stripping and Digital Forensics.

The workshop was conducted by the Department of CSE & IT, ITM University under the supervision of Dr. Latika Singh, HOD. Dr. Meena Kumari, Professor, Department of CSE&IT, lectured on Cryptography in Secure Electronic Transactions. ITM University has also introduced a new in-depth course from their current session- M Tech Computer Science with specialization in Cyber Security. The courses will skill the youths in various aspects of the cyber world both theoretically and practically. It will open doors for students willing to get in this field. The police officials were taken to the computer labs as well for practical session which gave them hands on experience of the new technologies and tools of cyber security.

Saurabh Kaushal, Technical administrator, NITTTR, Chandigarh; Rahul Tyagi, Associate Vice President, Lucideus Tech Private Ltd., New Delhi and Manoj Kumar, MS in Digital Forensics from ITB, Ireland were the other experts who delivered the lectures. The approach of the lecturers was to keep workshop skewed towards the practical aspects, which police officials have to deal on a day to day basis.

“Such workshops upgrade the skills of the officers and are required these days. It was recently noticed that cyber crimes had gone far beyond incidents of someone posting offensive content on the social networking websites. Therefore the investigative method needs to be upgraded. This workshop has definitely added to our skill and knowledge.” said Rajesh Kumar, ACP, Crime, Gurgaon.