Seminar on Cyber Security at iLEAD

00:03:28 | Seminar & Workshop| Ep.# 6 | Education

#iLEAD in association with #Cyberdefencely firm of Information Technology Dept and Folks Deal (an e-commerce company) organized a seminar on #Cyber_Security. In a digital and cashless India protection of wealth, data and personal information is growing in importance and the seminar enlightened the audience with a complete knowhow on protection from all forms of #cyber_attacks. The chief guest and speaker for the event was Prof Dipankar Dasgupta, a professor at the University of Memphis and the founding Director of the Centre for Information Assurance. Prof Dasgupta mentioned how India has one of the highest number of cyber attacks in the world and the least amount of cyber defense systems. He continued by explaining how privacy has become a relic of the past and how wealth, information, intellectual property are all vulnerable. Indians form the highest amount of IT workforce in the world, yet India has one of the weakest cyber security. Due to the social media boom, cases of information theft, hacking, stalking and many heinous crimes are on the rise. He mentioned cases of robbery via hacking and how the internet enabled world has already become underworld’s marketplace, a hacker’s playground and a nation state battleground.