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BSA’s programme on software security

Bangalore: A major investment and recurring expenditure for most information technology and IT-enabled Services companies, is the software they use. They need to avoid pirated software that can damage their systems or lead to legal complications.

The Business Software Alliance (BSA), an international organisation with an active presence in India, has a pilot project on in Karnataka to achieve such objectives, with the support of the State Government. On Monday, 65 small and midsized companies based in Bangalore, in the IT and ITeS sectors, completed a software asset management leadership programme. The BSA certificate was handed over to them by Karnataka Government’s Centre for e-governance.

Principal Secretary, Department of e-Governance, M.N. Vidyashankar said, “We supported the programme aimed at promoting Karnataka’s IT/ITeS sector enable strong corporate governance by adopting mature software asset management practices. The industry also becomes globally competitive by following international governance standards.” This programme is to establish a ‘model state’ that promotes organisation productivity and network security through model Software Asset Management practices and also promote Intellectual Property Rights protection to fight software piracy. Karnataka was selected being a pioneer in many important IT milestones.

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