CII organises virtual session on strengthening cyber security

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, October 13

Scourge of cyber crimes and modus operandi of threat attackers were discussed threadbare in the CII virtual session on Strengthening Cyber Security: Prevention: Detection: Remediation.

Naavniit Miterr, Chairman, CII Amritsar Zonal Council, moderated the session and highlighted the biggest challenges faced by businesses and society due to cyber crime. Dr Sukhchain Singh Gill, Police Commissioner, said the cybercrime was one of the emerging fields which was very important to be taken care of. Currently, social media, child pornography, revenge porn, fraudulent banking transactions and phone hacking were the most concerning issues for the police with regard to cybercrime.

While summing up, he motivated the CII to work hand in hand with police so that the issues from industry perspective could be dealt effectively.

Avneet Rana, cofounder and Siddharth Vijay from Baazi Games apprised the audience the concept of dark web and cloud computing. Siddharth highlighted the dos and don’ts to keep the data safe on internet.

Trishneet Arora, CEO, TAC Security, while interacting with participants said the cyber criminals were a step ahead in cyber attacks than before any combat measure was taken. Breaking the stereotype reflex action of reporting to police first, Trishneet made the industry members aware of the difference between cyber attack and cyber crime and when to report to police or cyber expert.

Toshar Dhar, regional head, risk intelligence, HDFC Bank, along with his colleague Vijay Kumar, shared the presentation on various types of threats being faced by financial institutions such as phishing, ATM skimming, credit card fraudulent, UPI related and the most prevalent smishing.

Vijay shared the preventive measures to be followed for dodging any such attempt of cyber attack. While thanking everyone for taking out time to attend the session, Rajiv Sajdeh, vice-chairman, Amritsar Zonal Council, said it was very important for financial institutions to stay informed about the latest threats and ready with actions of prevention, detection and remediation.