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THE need for cyber law literacy will be of critical importance in the years to come, says Na.Vijayashankar, director Cyber Law College, a virtual college that offers a series of training programmes in awareness and application of cyber laws.
"With all major companies doing their transaction on electronic documents, a formal knowledge of cyber law is essential," he says. His college is claimed to be the only one of its kind in the country offering specialisation in the subject. "Cyber law is very much a niche area, hence it is not feasible to run a standardised programme on the subject like other courses," says Mr. Vijayashankar.
In fact the demand from the takers of the course itself is fragmented with the candidates being drawn from various parts of the country.
A majority of them are professionals such as lawyers, chartered accountants and engineers who find a beneficial use for the subject in their respective professions.
The e-mail based course includes a three-month certificate programme on cyber laws and four-and-a-half month certificate programme on techno-legal security, both given by the college.
The topics covered will feature basic concepts of technology and law, law of digital contracts, rights of netizens and e-governance, protecting information assets, security policies, Information Technology Act, international scenario in cyber laws and case studies.
According to Mr. Vijayashankar, the course on techno-legal security is a job-oriented programme, which enables a graduate with aptitude for computer applications to become a network security professional.
"They can function as techno-legal security consultants in both IT and non IT sector."
In fact, according to a NASSCOM-IDC survey, the demand for information security professionals in the country would be 80,000 by the year 2008.
For details contact, e-mail:naavi@vsnl.com, web: www.cyberlawcollege.com
Sangeeth Kurian
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