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The Indian <strong>Police</strong> JournalCyber Preparedness compelling the Government to develop a counter-strategy to deal suspect Pakistani <strong>and</strong> Chinese hackers for being responsible for most<strong>of</strong> these attacks, <strong>and</strong> have asked Security Agencies to jointly map outthe cyber infrastructure <strong>of</strong> neighbouring countries as part <strong>of</strong> a ‘cyberpreparedness’ strategy.These agencies have been asked to study the web security layout<strong>of</strong> ‘suspect countries’, as knowledge <strong>of</strong> security st<strong>and</strong>ards, as wellas s<strong>of</strong>tware <strong>and</strong> encryption capabilities is required for unleashinga counter-attack. The mapping <strong>of</strong> cyber systems <strong>of</strong> other countries,including their Internet gateways, routers, IT system layouts, <strong>and</strong> webheld last month.”Ubiquitous Internet, the range <strong>of</strong> opportunities, spectrum <strong>of</strong>infrastructure <strong>and</strong> access to devices spread across Internet, has to beviewed as a complicated <strong>and</strong> massive, both in terms <strong>of</strong> technologycomponent <strong>and</strong> human component. Various forces that are tobe considered are social, cultural <strong>and</strong> skill level <strong>of</strong> the criminals. Underst<strong>and</strong>ing the complicated issues <strong>of</strong> technology <strong>and</strong> humanbehaviour in order to analyse <strong>and</strong> develop a model <strong>and</strong> its dynamicnature is the need <strong>of</strong> the hour. Cyber criminals use sophisticated <strong>and</strong>rapidly evolving advantage <strong>of</strong> technology due to anonymity. Globally,Law Enforcement personnel are experiencing the threat <strong>and</strong> arereacting appropriately. The challenges include:• Changing technology provides ample opportunity, if propersecurity is not implemented;• Victims are globally spread;• E-crimes are not being reported;• Volatile nature <strong>of</strong> the technology;• Jurisdictional issues;but are not limited to the above-mentioned challenges.Law enforcement has to keep pace with technical advancement,distributed acquisition <strong>of</strong> evidence, presentation <strong>of</strong> evidence inJanuary - March, 201397
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