Chief Minister stresses importance of cyber security

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By Staff Reporter
The Hindu
September 29, 2013

Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Saturday said that the State Police 
Department’s cyber security hub, Cyberdome, scheduled to come up at 
Technopark would be a model in public private partnership.

Delivering the valedictory address at the International Cyber Security and 
Policing Conference-2013, he said the public and the government were 
becoming increasingly dependent on the cyber world and its security was of 
paramount importance to the polity. It was a resource, which, in the hands 
of the wrong people, could be turned into an awesome weapon against the 
State.

Information Technology secretary, P. H. Kurien, said public service 
delivery systems in Kerala were fast becoming digitised. e-commerce and 
e-banking were on the rise. Kerala had one of the largest number of 
internet, computer and mobile phone users in the country. Cyber security 
was the State’s primary concern, he said.

Bessie Pang, executive director, the Society for the Policing of Cyber 
Space, Canada, said international cooperation was essential among cyber 
security agencies and professionals to restrict the use of cyber space for 
criminal and disruptive purposes. State Police Chief K. S. Balasubramanian 
said it was the duty of the police to create user awareness to insulate 
the citizenry as best as possible from internet and computer related 
crimes.

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