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The objective of the Awards is to recognize Organizations, Chief Information Officers and Professionals who have shown Leadership combined with consistent Innovation.
The Emerging CIO’s of the year will be a benchmark to recognize excellence throughout the IT Industry. The Awards will focus on the Contribution of Individuals, Projects, Organizations that have excelled in the use, development of IT. The Awards recognized Individuals and Organizations that have demonstrated leadership in using IT for Business Transformation, optimizing costs, developing synergies across business and enhancing customer satisfaction
EDGE - Enterprises Driving Growth and Excellence using IT) is an initiative by InformationWeek to identify, recognize and honour end-user companies in India that have demonstrated the best use of technology to solve a business problem, improve business competitiveness, and deliver quantifiable ROI to stakeholders
Receiving Award in BI / Analytics Category
Kamal Matta, GM-IT and Telecom, is developing its IT division as an independent profit-centre by offering IT services to group companies. He has more than 10 years of experience in heading and managing the IT division of large business houses and addressing their requirements. He’s proficient in IT solution and architecture planning, evaluation, up-gradation and integration of the IT, networking, and telecom systems. His clients can vouch for his objective and rational analysis of IT. He looks at IT for what it is worth, without falling for the hype around it. — Receiving Award in Grand Ceremony at JW Marriot, Pune.
Despite being an IT hub and an attractive offshore desitnation, India has a lot to do in securing its cyber space. The recent $45 million global ATM heist which was traced back to two Indian IT companies- ElectraCard Services, based in Pune and EnStage Inc in Bengaluru has put the country in a difficult situation.
Several other incidences have proven India to be a happy hunting ground for cyber criminals. Experts feel that India's IT law is almost toothless against cyber criminals as its a bailable offence with maximum of three years of imprisonment. The recent Gulf ATM heist has uncovered India as a vulnerable destination in terms of IT security. "India is the weakest link," said Shane Shook, an expert with US cyber-security firm Cylance Inc in a report.
Shri Rajesh Tope, Minister of Higher & Technical Education, Govt. of Maharashtra said that as incidences of cyber crime have been increasing day by day industry participation is required to fight cyber crime in the country, while addressing the staff of Quick Heal during his visit to Quick Heal’s Research and Development Lab.
According to a report from The Hindu, India currently has only 556 cyber security experts in various government departments, while China has 1,25,000 experts, the U.S. 91,080 and Russia 7,300. India needs to wake up to the crisis as reports of hacking of sites, cyber terrorism, state supported hacking, hacking activism, economic offences are on the rise.
Speaking at The Mid-year CSO Summit 2013, organised by CSO Forum, Dr. Gulshan Rai, Director General, CERT-In, Government of India echoed, “The incidences that we witness today are far more complex. It's time to have a close collaboration between the industry and government to achieve in this domain. India due to its growing economic influence worldwide, has gained attention from cyber criminals. This is the time to come and think together as to what is best for the country. The scenario of cyber security in India needs to be improved significantly.”
Emphasizing on the importance of education in this scenario, Shri Tope also focused on the fact that the current academic syllabus needs to be upgraded to meet these challenges. Going forward industry participation is required to keep the students abreast of the latest developments.
Here’s a reminder for all our readers – Microsoft will no longer be providing any services to Windows XP operating system from April 8, 2014. In other words, machines still running this OS, will no longer receive security updates, and will be out of all kinds of support (paid or otherwise). Needless to mention, without all these updates, such computers would be increasingly vulnerable to malware attacks, and would be exposed to compliance risks, as well. Get a detailed insight into how the absence of such updates may affect you, in this post.
Users of Windows XP are recommended to upgrade the operating system to the latest available version immediately. Read more about this in Microsoft’s official site.
No More Support for Windows XP from April 2014 | Quick Heal blog