BYOD or Bring Your Own Device is the way organizations are planning to take. The talk is going abuzz in the corporate world as it would help organizations reduce their IT budget and increase operational efficiency. In my view it is not that bad an idea, but would require looking a bit deeper at the …
When we look around ourselves, we find that we are living in the ever evolving world of Gadgets or we can rather say that we are being enslaved by the Gadgets. So what is a Gadget? Let’s draw a caricature of Gadget with following definition – “A Gadget is a small device or appliance with …
I often get into these sorts of arguments where the technology implementation teams keep telling me that the documentation that they have been told to do is just waste of time and I keep telling them to follow the protocols of documentation without which I would not sign-off the implementation. Yeah they call me as …
I would not repeat what media has already splashed in its news over the so called Storm over Facebook Content and as I hear that Google is also getting embroiled in the controversy. Interesting stuff to note here is the reaction from Media over the Minister of Communication and Technology Sh. Kapil Sibal. I am …
Below was the Letter that I had written to the Law Minister when he was not in-charge and he had asked me to provide the details so that he could have spoken to the then Law Minister Mr. Kapil Sibbal. Interestingly, after the conversation, I had another round of telecon with the officials and then …
I have already written earlier on this issue –Blackberry Encryption and Threat to National SecurityInformation Security – What India NeedsVOIP and Risk of Data Privacy and ProtectionIssue of Data Protection & Privacy in India However, this time I have come back to write on this issue again post my interaction that I recently had with …
Cloud Computing is the Buzz Word that has caught the lime light in recent years and it is indeed interesting to see where does it go from here? Will it be Hype or will it be a successful Marketing Gimmick by the Infrastructure Services Providers and the OEMs. There has been a lot written and …
Just what I had highlighted in the previous two posts about the Government intentions to get access to the Google mails along with the Blackberry and Skype. Interestingly the news is here – “Government wants to read your Gmail”. Well pretty Interesting huh!!! Just when we were worried about the Privacy of the previous cases, …
Just finished reading “Encrypted Phone Calls & Skype Security” by a fellow blogger and a technocrat Friend Mukesh Kesharwani. Indeed pretty interesting and well covered stuff no doubts and that is what we expect from Mukesh. However, when I look in from my Risk and Compliance Corner, the concern of using Skype in Corporate Network …
It is quite interesting to note that when it comes to the Cyber Laws, Indian IT Act 2000 (amended by Information Technology Amendment Bill 2006, passed in Lok Sabha on Dec 22 and in Rajya Sabha on Dec 23 2008 and reinstated at Indian IT Act 2008) is one of the best Cyber Laws in …
