Cyber breaches have kept the governments,
individuals and companies around the world busy in 2014 in protecting
their interests and assets. India has also taken few steps in 2014 in
the cyber security field though they are of preliminary nature.
The annual cyber security trend of Perry4Law
Organisation (P4LO) is out. This supplement the previous
year trends name cyber
security trends and developments of India 2013 (PDF). For
the year 2014, P4LO has provided the cyber
security trends and developments in India 2014. Further,
the CECSRDI
Twitter account of P4LO is a very good place to get first
hand information about cyber security of India.
Some of the areas
covered by the cyber security trends 2014 are policy and
legal framework, national cyber coordination centre, bitcoins,
e-commerce websites, cyber security obligations of directors, etc.
India has been facing many cyber
security challenges that are not easy to tackle. The year
2014 did not witness taking of any effective steps by Indian
government to tackle these challenges. The international nature of
cyber attacks would require a totally different approach towards
cyber crimes and cyber security in India. Keeping this in mind, even
the cyber law of India would be required to be suitably
amended or repealed.
The winter session of Indian Parliament is already
over with not much legislative success. Let us hope that in the next
session of Parliament, India would pay attention to cyber law and
cyber security related legal and regulatory issues.
