Officials of the Hyderabad City police and around 165 owners of internet cafés in the Central Zone on Wednesday took part in an interactive session on containing cyber crime, at the Exhibition Society Office in the
Exhibition Grounds.
Central Zone Deputy Commissioner of Police Akun Sabharwal later told media persons that the interactive session was part of the concentrated efforts by the city police to fight cyber crime.
He said that cities like Hyderabad are emerging on the radar of cyber security, with cyber (internet) cafes booming. The objective of the session was to ensure Cyber Café Security Management, in an attempt to contain cyber crimem as cyber cafes are common targets for misuse and need to be well-regulated.
Sabharwal revealed that cyber cafes have been used by anti-social elements in the past in India, and that securing them is important. There is a need to ensure cyber cafes carry on conducting their business smoothly, safely and securely, while assisting in maintaining national security, he said.
He said that the city police has made concentrated efforts to fight cyber crime. These include initiatives like 'Delete Campaign', to educate Internet users about cyber crimes.
Until now, most cyber cafes maintain café visitor data in physical registers, which is not only inefficient information-management, but also makes it difficult to retrieve data when required.
In this session, it was suggested that all cyber cafés shift to the system of soft storage of user data, which is accessible directly by the police (including critical data like digital photo capture). It will be easy, transparent and foolproof to maintain security with the help of such software, he said.
To implement this, café visitors will have to be requested for registration for any access to the terminal and the internetm and an all-India single login ID could be given to each visitor. The software must be able to store photos, photo IDs, addresses, contact numbers and e-registers.
Courtesy: INN News