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CHENNAI: Experts have initiated a special audit and certification programme for Internet cafes owners that will help tackle cyber crimes and sleaze on the net.
"In an environment of increasing cyber crimes in India, cyber cafes have often been used by criminals to hide their identities and frustrate the authorities", Cyber Society of India (CySi) patron and former vigilance commissioner N. Vittal told a conference here Wednesday.
To assist cyber cafes to comply with the law and prevent misuse of their facilities, CySi has initiated a CyLawCom audit and certification programme.
The CyLawCom Audit is a review of the business process of an organisation to identify cyber law related risks of the business. The audit identifies risks and makes an assessment report.
It is followed by recommendations to bring the cyber law compliance level of the organisation to an acceptable level. Upon confirmation of compliance, the Internet cafs will get a certificate to this effect.
"By the very nature of the business of cyber cafes, there are possibilities of cyber cafes users committing cyber crimes", CySi experts said.
A majority of cyber cafes are not aware of the existing cyber laws and even those who are aware do not know how to demonstrate observance of "due diligence", experts of CySi said.
"It is expected that such voluntary compliance programmes will contribute to a better level of information asset security in the country and also develop a benchmark for due diligence" expected from Cyber Society stake holders, Vittal said.
While states like Maharashtra and Karnataka have made it mandatory that cyber cafes be registered and photo identity cards be produced by users, the success of these measures was still to be proved, Vittal said.
The events following the Bazee.com incident (where the website was reprimanded for auctioning an obscene MMS picture) have made cyber cafes realise that if they do not demonstrate having observed "due diligence", they may have to face liabilities arising from cyber crimes happening through their network, CySi said.
With a new generation of cyber crimes being committed with the use of mobile phones, development of "due diligence" standards was essential for the industry players to protect themselves from crimes "inadvertently committed through their networks or by their employees", they said.
Owners of cyber cafs are liable to become party to crimes unless they are able to claim protection under appropriate provisions of the Information Technology Act 2000, they said.
"In an environment of increasing cyber crimes in India, cyber cafes have often been used by criminals to hide their identities and frustrate the authorities", Cyber Society of India (CySi) patron and former vigilance commissioner N. Vittal told a conference here Wednesday.
To assist cyber cafes to comply with the law and prevent misuse of their facilities, CySi has initiated a CyLawCom audit and certification programme.
The CyLawCom Audit is a review of the business process of an organisation to identify cyber law related risks of the business. The audit identifies risks and makes an assessment report.
It is followed by recommendations to bring the cyber law compliance level of the organisation to an acceptable level. Upon confirmation of compliance, the Internet cafs will get a certificate to this effect.
"By the very nature of the business of cyber cafes, there are possibilities of cyber cafes users committing cyber crimes", CySi experts said.
A majority of cyber cafes are not aware of the existing cyber laws and even those who are aware do not know how to demonstrate observance of "due diligence", experts of CySi said.
"It is expected that such voluntary compliance programmes will contribute to a better level of information asset security in the country and also develop a benchmark for due diligence" expected from Cyber Society stake holders, Vittal said.
While states like Maharashtra and Karnataka have made it mandatory that cyber cafes be registered and photo identity cards be produced by users, the success of these measures was still to be proved, Vittal said.
The events following the Bazee.com incident (where the website was reprimanded for auctioning an obscene MMS picture) have made cyber cafes realise that if they do not demonstrate having observed "due diligence", they may have to face liabilities arising from cyber crimes happening through their network, CySi said.
With a new generation of cyber crimes being committed with the use of mobile phones, development of "due diligence" standards was essential for the industry players to protect themselves from crimes "inadvertently committed through their networks or by their employees", they said.
Owners of cyber cafs are liable to become party to crimes unless they are able to claim protection under appropriate provisions of the Information Technology Act 2000, they said.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1017405.cms
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