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The field of information security has grown and evolved significantly in recent years. Every organization that provides services to people, be it governments, military, corporates, financial institutions, hospitals, or private businesses, amass a great deal of confidential information about their employees, customers, products, research, etc. Today, most of this information is collected, processed and stored on electronic computers and transmitted across networks to other computers. This increases the risk of unauthorized access or use of the sensitive information. And this is where implementation of the information security policies becomes very important.

There are many information security professionals around the globe, serving their best for safeguarding their client information. And awards and recognition by your peers always boosts you confidence and helps to take on more challenges.

Recently, Executive Alliance announced the winners for the Information Security Executive (ISE) of the Year and Project of the Year North America Awards for 2008. Executive Alliance is the creator and provider of premium leadership recognition forums worldwide. Over 50 industry leaders and project teams from across the United States were honored in the areas of Academic, Government, and Commercial for their achievements in information security. Christopher Leach, Chief Information Security Officer and Senior Vice President of ACS, was awarded with the ISE People’s Choice Award. He received the award from the community of peers attending the event who voted him as the executive with the most exemplary attributes of a leader in the security industry.

Such awards always help any individual or team as their work is acknowledged and judged by someone who knows the industry inside out. More such initiatives would definitely help in promoting Information Security as a strong career option for the next generation.

To address & debate internet security issues the World Council for Corporate Governance of UK (WCFCG) together with its associate the International Academy of Law, India (IAL), and in partnership with Cyber Law College are organizing an International Conference on Cyber Security in New Delhi on 29-30 Nov, 2008. The theme for the conference is “Legislation, Monitoring & Enforcement of Cyber Laws”.

Law makers, Governmental policy makers, Legislators, Business leaders, IT experts, eminent jurists, enforcement organizations, academics, bankers & reputation agents are expected to participate. This conference will aim for the formulation & implementation of holistic measures for development, legislation & enforcement of laws for Cyber Security to contain terrorism & promote public interest. Sharing of knowledge & experience of leading Information Technology Experts & Companies, enforcement agencies & jurists in adopting strategies & processes for improving Cyber Security.

Attending this conference would be some eminent personalities like Shri Kapil Sibal, Prof Howard A Schmidt, Dr. Robert Erbacher, Dr. PR Stephenson, Dr. Madhav Mehra and many more. Surely you cannot miss the opportunity of being a part of this conference.

For paticipation details, visit http://www.wcfcg.net

Cyber crime is no longer an alien term for anyone today. We have been hearing about it, reading about it and talking about it, quoting examples of some victims or fraudsters. With advancements in technology, criminals and their ways of commiting crimes are also getting advanced. To tackle this menace, we need some strong cyber crime prevention measures, may be in the form of cyber cells or cyber activity monitoring services. In India, we have very few cyber cells that can be easily counted on fingers. Of course this is not enough to address the enormous issue of cyber crime.

Recently, Mohali police took a lead in getting the state’s first cyber crime police station-cum-forensic science laboratory. The Rs 8-crore state-of-the-art project will end the Punjab Police’s dependency on forensic science laboratories in other states for various tests.

The building — which will house a cyber crime police station and laboratories in Physics, Texilogy, lie-detection, Biology, Chemistry and Ballistic, as part of forensic science — will come up within two years. The Punjab Police Housing Corporation (PPHC) is the executing agency of the project. Also, a training institute, the Punjab Police Training Institute for private security guards at Jahan Khelan is expected to complete by June 2009. The institute, which is worth Rs 10 crore, will provide training to 4,000 security guards every year and with the implementation of the Private Security Agencies (Regulation) Act, 2005.

This project is a step forward for the Punjab Police towards becoming cyber-savvy and a hi-tech police force with effective investigation of crimes through advanced modes. Such steps are what is needed to ensure that the technology does not harm people. Such steps indicate that India is getting ready to tackle hi-tech crime.

Agape Inc, one of the leading computer & mobile forensics & security technology company has joined force with another global technology service provider: RADIUS-ED to form a state of the art work force known under the brand name “AGAPE-RADIUS.”

With Agape’s expertise in mobile forensics and the extensive work field experience of Radius-ED in mobile marketing has resulted in this alliance to be one of its kind. This will provide a common platform wherein you can get the finest mobile marketing services (E.g. G1, SMS assure, IPM, etc) to generate revenue for your business globally. Putting together the cutting edge solution of bulk mobile sms’ing with added safety creates a hi-tech package that can adhere the next generation.

Bulk SMS marketing has attained lot of importance as it enables companies to directly reach to their customers. But this involves making the use of technology and with technology comes the need of security. This is where Agape Inc makes its presence felt by providing technical expertise for keeping the complete process highly secure. Through this new venture Agape-Radius has developed a dynamic & interactive marketing strategy by targeting the fundamental upbringing and thinking beyond imagination to create a relationship with value for its privileged customers. Thus, Agape Radius-ED network of direct operator connections delivers messages from mobile business applications to mobile subscribers worldwide.

For more information on our solutions and various mobile marketing plans, visit Agape-Radius website.

It has been a very busy week for everyone at Agape as we had been working very hard to achieve the certifications. After being certified by IQMS last week , we have achieved 2 more certificates this week.

While one certificate was awarded for the Occupational Health & Safety Management System, which means Agape Inc comply with the required standards for OHSAS 18001:2007. The other certificate awarded was for effectively following the NS-EN ISO 14001:2004/ISO 14001:2004 standards. Both the certificates were awarded by Norsk Akkreditering of Norway.

WinRAR, the company with a goal to establish RAR as the standard compression tool making expert knowledge available for everyday use had recently joined hands with Agape Inc, India’s leading computer forensics and mobile forensics company. WinRAR which works on making RAR known to every computer user and further extending the user base by constantly improving their software according to customer needs and offering quality support to them.

The famous shareware file archiver and data compression utility developed by Eugene Roshal has come up with the latest WinRAR 3.8 version that can be downloaded from the link given below.

Recently, the International Quality Management System certified Agape’s proprietary product, Agape e Locks. This certification was awarded as our product matched the requirements imposed by European Union Directive No. 73/23/EEC (the Low Voltage Directive).

Thus it has now been certified that Agape e Locks operates in the voltage range of 50 to 1000 Volts AC and 75 to 1500 Volts DC; making sure it does not jeopardize the safety of people, domestic animals or property. During the auditing process the requirements for product marking and declarations of conformity were considered and so were the standards which apply to  different classes of equipments. And thus, Agape e Locks was awarded the certification in Class 1 devices as per the Low Voltage Directives.

The Leading professional data recovery provider - SalvationDATA were on holiday during the past week; but made sure that their customers did not face any problems.

October 1 is the Chinese National Day, hence they were on holiday from September 29 to October 5. However, in order to reply to their customer’s requests on time, their sales and technical support departments were serving the customers as usual, even in the holiday period.

All the customers who contacted SalvationDATA during that period, were happy with the professionalism shown by the company. Some of them even did not know about such a holiday, even though SalvationDATA had made an official announcement about the same on their website. Thus when they were provided the technical support for their queries, they were immensly happy and appreciated the company’s unique step of providing technical support.

We have heard the term bullying when we were in schools/universities. We have encountered many cases, where a senior is bullying his junior or a trickster bullying a simpleton. This act is committed when an individual hates another individual / group and wants to vent his anger.

When this bullying happens on the web, it is referred as - Cyber Bullying. The term refers to a situation when someone repeatedly makes fun of another person online or repeatedly picks on another person through emails or text messages, or uses online forums intended to harm, damage, humiliate or isolate another person. It mostly happens when teens use the Internet, cell phones, or other devices to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person. Cyber-bullies may disclose victims personal data (e.g. real name, address, or workplace/schools) at websites or forums that defames or ridicules them. Educators have observed an alarming rise in the number of school fights being filmed and posted on YouTube. Thus, many researches have started to recognize cyber bullying as cyber crime.

To talk more about this increasing menace, around 200 Bay Area educators met at Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale. Yahoo child safety expert Catherine Titlebalm informed the participants that online unethical behavior can be prevented through education. She also said that kids can be taught of different ways to protect themselves from cyber-bullying. Proper education can definitely reduce the vulnerability of kids being victims of such a menace. But some of the enforcement agencies have already started to take steps to punish the one who tries to bully someone in the cyber space.

Leading professional data recovery system provider - SalvationDATA has recently released an update for HD Doctor. The update beta for HD Doctor for WD includes some enhancements (majorly the support list, now it covers almost all WD drives) and bugfixes. Also this update adds the support for new Western Digital drives and sports a new program interface.

Customers who are interested in testing the 2.50 beta are free to download it from the link given below.

Download Link: HD Doctor For WD V2.50 Beta

For a complete list on all the bugfixes in v2.50, click here

SalvationDATA has been providing data security consultancy and comprehensive solutions for large organization and had recently partnered with Agape Inc to offer their world class solutions to the Indian market.