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Harness data protection as a lever for economic development of India through global integration of practices and standards conforming to various legal regimes

To create trustworthiness of Indian companies as global sourcing service providers, and to assure clients worldwide that India is a secure destination for outsourcing where privacy and protection of customer data are enshrined in the global best practices followed by the industry.

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DSCI NEWS Q U A RT E R LY N E W S L E T T E R O F D ATA S E C U R I T Y CO U N C I L O F I N D I A

July 2013 Vol. 4 No.3

DSCI Excellence Awards 2013 Nominations open

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DSCI Certified Privacy Lead Assessor Training

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Nominations Open

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Public Advocacy

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4DSCI Analysis of the National Cyber Security Policy 2013

The National Cyber Security Policy 2013 was released by Shri Kapil Sibal, Hon'ble Minister of Communications and IT on July 2, 2013. DSCI has prepared its analysis of the policy and shared with the industry. The analysis identifies the possible opportunities and concern areas in the policy especially from the industry perspective. It was also presented to the industry in a special session organized at the Best Practices Meet on July 12 in Chennai. Download Analysis DSCI-Cisco Security Thought Leadership Program

A research paper competition was organized in partnership with IEEE India Council at the Best Practices Meet, 2013 in Chennai. Authors of 6 papers, shortlisted from over 40 submissions, presented their research to the jury members. After a critical evaluation of the papers, the winners were announced. Mr. Ponnavaikko Murugesa, Head, IEEE India Council and Dr. Kamlesh Bajaj, CEO DSCI conferred the award and congratulated the winners. The winners are:

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Mr. Steven Sprague - Wave Systems - Best Research PaperMr. Asit More - ABV Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, Gwalior- First Runner up Mr. Santosh Krishna Putchala - Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions - Second Runner up

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Report on Leading Industry Practices - DSCI Excellence Awards

A report on 'Leading Industry Practices in Security and Privacy' was prepared in association with PwC. The report captures the leading security and privacy practices adopted by organizations, operating in different industry verticals. The analysis was done on the basis of information received through nomination forms in the previous editions of DSCI Excellence Awards.

White Paper on Best Practices for Cloud Adoption by Indian Banks

As a member of the Security Working Group (WG) constituted by The Open Group, DSCI along with the banking sector is developing a white paper on 'Best Practices for Cloud Adoption by Indian Banks'. The white paper will provide inputs on legal and regulatory compliance requirements, challenges to cloud adoption from security, integration and operational perspective and would provide recommendations to banks for migrating their application workloads to the Cloud. This paper aims to compliment IDRBT WG efforts which are focused only on non-transactional and non-customer facing applications.

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Outreach & Awareness Best Practices Meet 2013

DSCI held its fifth Best Practices Meet focused on the forward leaning strategies for cyber security on July 12 in Chennai. The meet witnessed participation of over 200 senior industry and government security professionals in thought provoking discussions on various aspects of cyber security and contemporary challenges.

The meet featured panel discussions on several topical subjects, including - National Cyber Security through Public Private Partnership, Cyber Health, Cyber Defense, Demystifying Cyber Attacks, Security Automation & Intelligence, Defending Application Innovations and Defending against Advance Persistent Threats, Bringing Strength & Maturity in Defending Application Innovations.

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The panelists were drawn from policy makers, government officials, thought leaders from user organizations, and solution providers. Some of the eminent speakers included - Mrs. Archana Ramasundaram, IPS, DGP/Chairperson, TNUSR, Chennai, Brig (Retd) Abhimanyu Ghosh, Director, National Security Council Secretariat, Prof. Rangaraja Sundarraj, Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras, Mr. Patrick Kishore, COO, IDRBT, Mr. Anand Kumar, GM, Wipro and Mr. Saro Velarajan, Director- Technology, Aricent Group among others. 2

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DSCI Pune Chapter-MCCIA conference on Cyber Security and Defence

DSCI Pune Chapter, in association with Marattha Chamber of Commerce Industries and Agriculture, Pune, organized a conference on cyber security and defense in Pune. Mr. Vinayak Godse, Director - Data Protection, was a co-panelist in a session on 'Cyber warfare and Cyber Security - Defence and Homeland Security Domains', where he highlighted how international cooperation and initiatives can help fight cyber terrorism. He emphasized that various stakeholders including CERTs, Interpol, Law Enforcement Agencies, among others should collaborate at various levels to fight against cybercrime and terrorism.

DSCI-CIS-FICCI Privacy Roundtable series

DSCI continues to collaborate with CIS and FICCI in conducting series of multi-stakeholder round table meetings on 'privacy'- the fifth meeting was held in Kolkata in partnership with National University of Juridical Sciences. The DSCI paper on 'Strengthening Privacy Protection through Co-Regulation' and the 'Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy' was discussed in detail with the broader objective of creating awareness among professionals, and contributing to the development of privacy legislation in India.

DSCI-BSA Workshop on Policy and Legal Issues in the Cloud

A workshop to discuss policy and legal issues in the cloud was organized by DSCI in association with BSA. The workshop was attended by the leading cloud service providers and a senior DeitY representative. Key issues including jurisdictional challenges, lawful access to data, issues relating to cybercrime investigations and capturing of cyber forensics among other were brainstormed. Discussion Paper

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National Cyber Security Policy 2013 Release

CEO, DSCI was a co-panelist in a discussion held ion the occasion of the release of NCSP-2013 by the Ministry of Communications and IT. He welcomed the NCSP-2013 as a right step towards protecting the cyber space. While sharing the industry perspective and the way forward in operationalization of the policy he emphasized on the public- partnership models and increasing collaboration between government and industry. Other panelist at the discussion included Mr. J Satyanayana, Secretary DeitY, Ministry of Communication and IT; Dr. Gulshan Rai, DG, CERT-In; Prof. N Balakrishnan, IISc Bangalore and Chairman DSCI and Prof . S. V. Raghavan, secretary, O/o PSA.

Roundtable Discussion on Privacy

CEO, DSCI was co-panelist at the round table discussion on 'Right to Privacy: Issues and Way Forward' organized by ASSOCHAM under the chairmanship of Shri Ram Jethmalani, Member Rajya Sabha and former Law Minister. He underlined the importance of globally ac-ceptable privacy principles, their implementation by organizations through privacy programs based on a set of practices of the much expanded in DPF and their demonstrations through assess-ments. He also highlighted the need for industry self regulation. Other co-panelists included Justice Mr. Govind Prasad Mathur, Former Judge, Supreme Court of India and Former Member, National Human Rights Commission; Mr. Suman Jyoti Khaitan, Deputy President, ASSOCHAM & President PHDCCI; Ms. Pinki Anand, Sr. Advocate, Supreme court of India and Mr. Amod K Kanth, Eminent Social Development Expert.

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Cybercrime Workshop

DSCI in association with the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology (MCIT) and Cyber Crime cell, Lucknow, U.P. Police, organized a 2 day Cybercrime Awareness Workshop for Law Enforcement Agencies on July 26 and 27 in Hazratganj, Lucknow. The workshop witnessed the participation of over 100 police officials. This is the fourth cyber crime awareness workshop organized by DSCI under the Cybercrime Awareness project of DeitY.

Mr. Deo Raj Nagar, IPS, DGP, Uttar Pradesh inaugurated the workshop and expressed the importance of cyber crime awareness for the law enforcement and highlighted that cybercrime is a big challenge for law enforcement agencies today. He also expressed the need to establish more cyber labs across districts. He commended the capacity building exercise being carried out by the Cybercrime Cell, Lucknow.

Dr. Gulshan Rai, Director General CERT-In, delivered a special address on the occasion and apprised the officers about the importance of such workshop. Dr. Kamlesh Bajaj, CEO, DSCI while giving the welcome address shared information on how the Internet is becoming a social force today. With 130 million users, more than 950 million mobile users, multiple e-commerce, e-governance applications and usage of social media, it is becoming very attractive for cyber criminals to launch attacks, conduct financial frauds and espionage. He emphasized on the role of DSCI in training the police officials through 8 cyber labs in different cities.

Cyber Labs Special Training Programs

4Over 300 police officials were trained on cyber crime investigation through standardized training programs in all the cyber labs.

4Special sessions on invitation were taken for Air Force officials, National Institute of Criminology and Forensics Sciences, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh police officials.

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CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES

How to draw lines in space

An authored article by Dr. Kamlesh Bajaj, CEO, DSCI, reviews the National Cyber Security Policy 2013 released recently. It states that the policy presents a complete ecosystem for a secure computing environment, keeping in view the latest developments in other countries, but the challenge is in implementing the policy and defin-ing the details.

A look on national Cyber Security Policy 2013

The byline article by Mr. Rahul Jain, Principal Consultant, DSCI on the National Cyber Security Policy 2013 discusses the positives and negatives of the policy from an industry perspective.

Big Data Analysis- the value it brings, the debate it opens

The byline article by Mr. Vikram Asnani, Principal Consultant, DSCI on Big Data talks about the importance of data in decision making. It also discusses the debate it has opened in context of privacy and security.

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DSCI is a focal body on data protection in India, set-up as an independent Self Regulatory Organization (SRO) by NASSCOM®, to promote data protection, develop security and privacy best practices & standards and encourage the Indian industries to implement the same.

DSCI is engaged with the Indian IT/BPO industry, their clients worldwide, Banking and Telecom sectors, industry associations, data protection authorities and other government agencies in different countries. It conducts industry wide surveys and publishes reports, organizes data protection awareness seminars, workshops, projects, interactions and other necessary initiatives for outreach and public advocacy. DSCI is focused on capacity building of Law Enforcement Agencies for combating cyber crimes in the country and towards this; it operates several cyber labs across India to train police officers, prosecutors and judicial officers in cyber forensics. Public Advocacy, Thought Leadership, Awareness and Outreach and Capacity Building are the key words with which DSCI continues to promote and enhance trust in India as a secure global sourcing hub, and promotes data protection in the country.

About DSCI

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Priti VandanaManager - Marketing & Communications, DSCI

Rahul JainPrincipal Consultant, DSCI

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