On Monday Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has inaugurated a national cyber forensic lab and the Delhi Police’s cybercrime unit ‘CyPAD’. It will better equip India in it's fight against cybercrime.
Cybercrimes are a major threat to India and terror groups out there make it a point to attack Indians through this route many times in the year.
The Hindu reports that the Cyber Protection Awareness and Detection Centre (CyPAD) and the lab are both located in the same complex in Dwarka’s Sector 16 C. The national cyber forensic lab (NCFL) is part of the Union Home Ministry’s Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C).
CyPAD is a comprehensive facility that is capable of dealing with cyber investigation, cyber forensics, cyber safety and security related services to the citizens of India, as well as to the police units and agencies of Delhi.
Mr. Singh said they have a zero-tolerance policy towards cybercrime. He said that cybercrime is a challenge to basic policing and this facility will help curb it.
Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik said: “It is the first cybercrime awareness and detection centre opened in the country. To be selected by the MHA to host the cyber forensic lab is a great moment of pride. The entire range of cyber forensic will be covered under CyPAD. We are selecting the staff on the basis of their technical qualification and their computer knowledge.”
Only yesterday I reported about the 100cr crypto scam busted by Mumbai police. These initiatives will make our country not only safer but also protect the hard earned money of our citizens and catch culprits pushing people into these scams.
Forensics labs
The cyber forensic labs include units likes Memory Forensics Labs, Image Enhancement Lab, Network Forensics Lab, Malware Forensics Lab, Cryptocurrency Forensics Lab, Damaged Hard Disk and Advanced Mobile Forensics Lab, as confirmed by M.M. Oberoi, Special CP (Special Cell).
He also added that the NCFL will help officers detect cyberfraud and the facility will prove to be an asset to the police cracking down on cyber crimes.
“We are now equipped with technology to recover data from damaged hard disks, cryptocurrency analysis, malware forensic and data can be retrieved from 33,000 kinds of mobile models available in the market. Cyberexperts will train our staff,” said Mr. Patnaik.
Mr. Singh visited the various labs and saw demonstrations that showed off the capabilities of the Cyber Simulation Training and Open Source Threat Analytics. During the event, he also saw the demonstration of the technology used to check the authenticity of the video and crop images of suspects from the low-quality videos.
The inaugural function also witnessed participation from academic and technical institutions such as IIT-Delhi, National Law University, DTU, NSIT, etc.
In light of various cyberfraud, crypto scams, cyber crimes, security threats faced by the country, these initiatives will go a long way in helping nab the criminals and bring them to justice. It will also help the citizens reduce their exposure to anti-social elements and perhaps help the police in tracking anti-national elements as well.
I hope these facilities will well equipped with the right personnel capable of using these new equipments to its fullest potential and beyond.
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