Digital Security Association of India (DiSAI) is a non-profit NGO registered as a public trust to create awareness on digital security.  In the six years of its service, DiSAI has so far organized many workshops and seminars in which High Court Judges besides top IAS and IPS officers of the state have been the Chief Guests and key note speakers. All our events have consistently received excellent feedback from the participants.

 

Today, on Saturday, 18 March 2023 DiSAI organized a Workshop on  “Digital Security in India: Emerging trends and increasing concerns” in association with  K7 Computing Pvt Ltd (K7 Anti Virus) at Raman Auditorium, AC Tech Building, Anna University, Chennai.

 

Hon’ble Justice Sunder Mohan,  Madras High Court was the Chief Guest.  He delivered an informative inaugural address, focusing on the cyber crime scenario in the country and the various cases in the area.  Delivering the keynote address, Shri Biswa Ketan Das CEO, IIBF, Mumbai highlighted the role of banks in dealing with cybercrimes in the banking industry explaining how banks take care of customers’ data.  Continuing the discussion from this, Shri Srinivasa Raghavan, Dy Dir General State Information Officer of National Informatics Centre, spoke on the technological issues involved in data storage, security and retrieval.

 

There were thematic sessions on Anti Virus, Mobile Security, Online Gaming and Cyber Crime Investigation before lunch.  After the lunch, there was an interesting Panel Discussion, with one panelist each representing the banking, journalism, social networking sites, focusing the relative strength and vulnerabilities in each sector and guiding the participants how to be active and yet be safe in these.

 

The meeting concluded with concluding remarks from the Chairman Shri V Rajendran and the Organising Secretary Smt S Panchi who also answered the questions raised by participants on subjects like banking, technology, cyber laws and data privacy.