Digital Security Association of India jointly with SkillsDA Chennai, organised a Seminar on “Digital Security: Emerging Trends and Increasing Threats” at Raman Auditorium, AC Tech Building, Anna University Campus on Saturday, 6 Jan 2024. The event commenced with the Chairman Shri V Rajendran, welcoming the audience giving a brief introduction on why this seminar is being organised now and the emerging trends in digital security, digital evidences and the present scenario in the area. Inaugural address was rendered by Hon’ble Justice Thiru A.D. Jagadish Chandira, Madras High Court with an insightful lecture on the recent trends in cyber crimes and the impact on digital security especially personal digital data.

Smt. Uma Sankar, Regional Director, Reserve Bank of India gave an informative talk with a PowerPoint presentation on cybercrimes, role played by RBI and the types of crimes that are generally reported in the BFSI sector. This was followed by a Special Address by Shri. Vaidyanathan Chandramouli, Director, SkillsDa speaking on digital security and the industry’s concerns in the area. Dr T.V. Gopal proposed the Vote of Thanks for the inaugural session.

After the tea break, Ms. Priyadarshini, Dy Supdt of Police, Cyber Crime Wing, and Tamil Nadu Police spoke with a presentation on how the cybercrime wing police deal with the various complaints received by them and cautioned the audience on the latest modus operandi in such crimes. Shri Shiva Balaji, CEO Bitlock Online Solutions P Ltd, gave some useful tips on mobile apps and malicious apps, followed by an informative talk by Dr N Subramaniam, Executive Director, SETS, Chennai, taking the audience through the technology involved in Artificial Intelligence including the possible threats and crimes associated with it.

After the lunch, the panel discussion was anchored by the well known TV anchor Shri Bharat, Vice President Media Journalists Association. Smt Panchi Subramanian spoke about internet banking giving some useful hints on how the public should be careful in online banking. Shri Logesh Babu, presented the user perspective in social media and gave many technology tips on security and data protection in social networking sites. Dr Praveen Kumar, Dean, Commerce, Bharat University, spoke about the addiction of youth in social media and highlighted the duties of parents and teachers in this socially networked world in guiding or guarding the youth or students. Kum Simhaanjana, Advocate, presented the legal issues explaining the salient features of Indian legislations in the area of cyber crimes and digital security. There were lots of questions from the audience, well answered by panellists Mrs. Panchi and Dr. Praveen.

All the participants numbering around 150 gave a wonderful and encouraging feedback urging the organisers to conduct more such awareness initiative seminars at regular intervals. The sponsors, volunteers and the panellists were honoured with mementos in the form of books, shields and gifts. The event concluded with a Summing and Vote of Thanks by the Treasurer Shri Ramesh Bhashyam, the group singing of National Anthem followed by Tea.

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On November 23, 2023, Mr. Rajendarn, Chairman of The Digital Security Association of India (DiSAI), delivered a speech titled “Data Privacy: Legal Perspectives.”

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MoU signed with Central Law College, for continued and sustained mutually beneficial initiatives on Digital Security Awareness. The MoU was signed after conducting a week-long well attended programme on Cyber Laws and Digital Security at the college auditorium, on 22 Sept 2023.

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The Digital Security Association of India (DiSAI) Presents a FREE Webinar panel discussion on Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, What it says and what it does not! on Wednesday, 6th Sept 2023
from 4.00 PM to 5.00 PM

☛ Click here to Register (free)

PANELISTS:

Shri S.N. Ravichandran

DiSAI, Coimbatore

MODERATORS:

Shri M.J. Logesh Babu

Smt S.Panchi

For more details: +91 94440 73849 and +91 98416 64760

A 1-day workshop was organized on the theme “Digital Security in India: Emerging Threats” in ‘Raman Auditorium’, AC Tech Building, Anna University Campus, Chennai on Saturday 23 July 2022. Hon’ble Shri D. Bharatha Chakravarthy, Judge Madras High Court was the Chief Guest and delivered an enlightening lecture on digital security and data privacy. Shri S.K. Dogra, (Retd) , I.P.S., D.G.P. T.N. Police delivered a key note address on the recent trends in cyber crimes in India. After the tea break, there were four thematic sessions the first one by Ms Srilisha, D.S.P. T.N. Police Cyber Crime Command Centre, followed by one session each on ‘Artificial Intelligence’ by Shri S.N. Ravichandran, ‘Securing the Mobile Device’ by Shri Dinesh and “Money crimes in the Metaverse’ by Smt Panchi. The post-lunch session was a panel discussion with three participants – Dr Bascarane, Supdt of Police from Pondicherry Police, Shri Logesh Babu, cyber law advocate and Shri R Bhagwan Singh, senior journalist, well moderated by Shri Bharat, the well-known media personality and anchor. Please click the link for photos and complete video recording of the day’s event.

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A Lecture Session was conducted in association with MMA, Chennai on 23 May 2022 from 5.30 to 7.30 PM on “Recent Trends in Cyber Crimes” Shri Amaraesh Pujai, I.P.S. Director General of Police was the Chief Guest. He spoke on the recent trends in cyber crimes in India, and then highlighted the efforts taken by the Cyber Crime Wing in Tamil Nadu police to recover the money in case the complaint is lodged immediately after the crime is reported ie within the Golden Hour itself ie the first few minutes or at least first one hour of the incident. He described the usefulness and purpose of the helpline number 1930 and emphasised the need to propagate the number adding that NGOs like DiSAI can play a major role in such awareness initiatives. Shri Siva Balaji spoke on the various vulnerabilities in a cellphone and the significance of some of the settings. There were lot of questions in the Q & A session with the speakers answering the questions, sharing their knowledge. The enlightened audience included two General Managers of Indian Overseas Bank besides many top executives of IOB and other banks, practising advocates, retired bank officials and groups of MBA and Criminology students.