The Hindu Business Line : Cyber security research centre set up at Chandigarh

New Delhi March 19 With the view to strengthening cyber security in the country, a Regional Cyber Security and Research Centre (RCSRC) has been set up at Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh. The centre would focus primarily on emerging areas of information, communication and technology such as wireless mobile computing and networking.

The institute is jointly funded by the Department of Information Technology and the Society for Promotion of Information Technology (SPIC), Chandigarh and would have Nasscom as a technical consultant.

The centre would equip organisations in policy enforcements related to cyber security and also offer consulting services to IT companies and police departments on secure design networks. This includes deployment of security administration software like intrusion detection, management software for vulnerability checking, protection against port scanners and password crackers amongst others.

The centre would have mentors on its board from the industry, academia and defence services such as Dr Sundeep Oberoi, Principal Consultant, Information Security, TCS; Mr Arun Seth, Chairman, British Telecom India; Dr Prem Chand, Executive Director, Tech Mahindra; professors from IIT Kanpur and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore amongst others who would facilitate research work for undergraduate and post-graduate students and researchers in the concerned areas.

"We are hopeful that this will further raise the bar for India being at the forefront in identifying possible concern areas and spearheading new methods to curtail any security loopholes," said Mr Kiran Karnik, President, Nasscom.

It seeks to be the nodal agency to undertake and collate data for research focussed on cyber security. As per a report released by Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) in September, India was among the top ten countries where sites involved in `phishing' were hosted the most. While US had the largest number of such websites (35.5 per cent), India had managed to take the tenth spot (1.66 per cent) according to the report.

Other countries, which were in the top-10 list included China, Korea, Japan, France, Canada and Germany. The APWG also reported that the number of crimeware-spreading sites, globally, had surged to an all-time high in June with 2,945 such sites detected by its researchers — up 40 per cent from May and nearly 10 per cent higher than the previous record.

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