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S. Muthu Kumaran, chief consultant, Gemini Communications Ltd, Chennai, handing over copies of souvenir, released at the inaugural function of the National Conference on Cyber Crime and security Management, in Erode on Friday. Receiving the first copy is R. Ramamurthy, chairman of the society (right). – PERUNDURAI: The Indian IT Act of 2000 has not enough teeth to tackle cyber crimes, R. Ramamurthy, chairman of the Cyber Society of India, has said. Inaugurating a ‘National Conference on Cyber Crime and Security Management’ at the Kongu Engineering College on Friday, he said: “Many sections of the Act are vague, and open to at least two or three interpretations.” “The Act has an e-commerce orientation and does not talk about the crime in detail,” he further said and explained that the orientation had to do with the then understanding that e-commerce would be the in-thing of the future. He then called for amendments to the Act. On Government’s preparedness to meet challenges in cyber world, Dr. Ramamurthy said several important departments were unguarded and many a sensitive file had not been sufficiently protected. He wanted the Government to initiate urgent steps to put in a protective mechanism in place. “Keeping this in mind the Government should have its nuts and bolts in place.” He then moved on to cyber warfare saying that it was real and that a nation could be chocked or paralysed without arms and ammunition. “Not a bomb would be dropped, not a drop of blood shed, but still the damage could be done by hacking into computers.” Dr. Ramamurthy went on to warn that terrorists had an edge in cyber war, as they were well versed in technology and used sophisticated methods of communication. About his organisation, he said it was a society “for netizens, by netizens and of netizens,” for there was no organisation to protect their interests in the cyber world. He told the engineering students that they could make use of the cyber threat for bettering them by looking at it as an opportunity by becoming cyber security experts. “There is a great demand for ethical hackers, cyber security experts, etc.” He then suggested the College to come up with a course in cyber security and promised all possible help from the Society. “We could even look at designing the syllabus for you,” he said. B. Muthukumaran, chief consultant of Gemini Communications Ltd., Chennai, and faculty members of the college participated in the seminar, which is on till November 4.
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