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How many times have we seen companies suffer huge losses for the simple reason of security lapse! Traditionally security is perceived as an expenditure that erodes our bottom lines and budgets. Such an approach towards security needs to be reinvented to keep pace with the dynamic changes in our IT security landscape. To answer such various security threats, a 3 day conference began yesterday in Singapore that would conclude tomorrow.

The annual event called Governmentware 2008, is presented by The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Singapore. This year’s theme, “Positive Security: Empowering Business Models of the Future”, highlights the need for all players in the infocomm ecosystem to adopt a more forward-looking paradigm in confronting IT security issues. The conference will be filled with action-packed demos with an attempt to encourage participants to embrace IT security as an opportunity to solve critical problems.

The conference program aims to highlight on the following points:

1. Security Issues related to Electronic Identities
2. Personal Digital Protection in the New Cyber Universe
3. Latest Cryptography and Biometrics
4. Critical Infocomm Infrastructure Protection
5. Database Security
6. Secure Wireless Sensor Devices
7. Wireless Security
8. Secure Collaboration Framework
9. nline Forensics
10. DIVA (Dynamic Isolation of Virtualised Applications)

Every time we hear the word ‘CRIME’, we only think of robberies, murders and detectives examining the crime scene, interrogating witnesses and finally nailing the guilty. But we never think outside these instances because we feel that crime is bound only to these boundaries. But this is not true at all. Today, cyber crime accounts as the most troublesome crime, troubling individuals and corporations alike. All the detailed information on the importance of cyber forensics is provided in the article below.

There have been numerous cases in India, wherein crimes were commited and the criminals went unpunished. Why? Because the IT Act 2000 had many loop holes and the cyber criminals exploited the same. The police and the law enforcement could only watch the criminal executing the crime, but could do nothing. But this scenario promises to change soon.

Recently the Indian government decided to amend the Information Technology Act 2000 by incorporating new provisions. Now, the cyber forensics devices and tools used for cracking cyber crimes  would be treated as evidence in the court of law. The main objective behind this amendment is to develop indigenous cyber forensics technology to make the country self-reliant in combating cyber crimes. The government is also stressing on the development of tools for cyber forensics, state-of-the-art training in cyber forensics and technical services like cyber crime analysis and cyber crime investigation.

These steps by the Indian government promises to combat cyber crime in India to a higher degree, than what it is now.

The forensic laboratory in Kalina completed 50 years in operations. The golden jubilee celebrations started on Monday, with the launch of National Workshop on Tape Authentication & Speaker Identification. Forensic scientists and police officers participated in large numbers as experts from renowned institutes across India delivered lectures on speech, voice analysis and phonetics.

A booklet was released on the occassion which listed the major cases handled by the laboratory. The forensic lab has started techniques like polygraph test, narco-analysis, brain fingerprinting , cyber forensics, tape authentication, speaker identification and forensic clinical toxicology.

We had launched this toll free number on 17 December 2007 to combat cyber crime and mobile offenses.

With the increase in the number of PDA’s and mobiles, related crimes in this sector have also increased. Cyber crimes such as online fraud, phishing or even threat mails have witnessed an increase in recent time. Also mobile related offenses like unsolicited calls or pornographic MMS have made many suffer. According to Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT IN) hackers had attacked around 6000 websites in the last year.

But now such sufferers can call 1800 209 6789 and seek professional and individual assistance for FREE. This number currently works only in India. But we are planning to make this number accessible worldwide.

This is our endeavor in curbing cyber crimes and making the web a safer place for everyone.

Agape Inc received ISO 9001:2000 certification on 2 May 2008.

The ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 families are among ISO’s best known standards ever and are implemented by over a million organizations in 161 countries.

The ISO 9000 family addresses “quality management”. This means Agape fulfills:

• the customer’s quality requirements, and
• applicable regulatory requirements, while aiming to
• enhance customer satisfaction, and
• achieve continual improvement of its performance in pursuit of these objectives

The image given below shows our certificate.