Asian School of Cyber Laws to offer training
VIBHA VERMA
PANJM: Goa will turn over a new chapter in tackling cyber crimes with a nationally acclaimed institute branching out to the coastal state, where cyber crime detection is abysmal.
Asian School of Cyber Laws (ASCL) is beginning to train the stakeholders including street-smart common men in cyber laws, cyber crime investigation and digital evidence.
ASCL Territory Manager (Goa) K S Borkar said that the “training attains significance in the recent years.”
“We thought training the manpower will help many including those who look forward to have career opportunities in the fields of cyber laws, cyber crime investigation and digital evidence,” he said in an interview with Herald.
The Goa operations of ASCL would be supervised by Pune Branch experts, who are also intending to join hands with Goa police to crack down the internet-related crimes.
The state of cyber crime detection in the State is not much encouraging. Goa Police’s Cyber Cell which was launched over a decade ago and till date it has no technical experts and is hence dependent on the popular Cyber Crime Investigator and Cyber Security Expert Harold D’Costa.
Along with offering assistance to police and other security agencies in Goa, the ASCL’s franchise holder will also set up classes of duration from three months to one year, depending on the type of course, for those aspiring to be e-detectives, tracking down the cyber crimes.
The institution has already been set up with infrastructure including class room, forensic lab, etc in place and to begin with it’s a team of three members ~ Borkar himself, his son Gaurav and another expert Swapnil.
The team feels that with cyber incidents on the rise, it was an urgent need for expertise in cyber law and cyber crime investigation in Goa. “We aim to offer our expertise in these areas to the numerous corporate bodies in Goa,” Gaurav said.
The institution, which is most likely to commission in the next two months, will have courses for under graduates, graduates, post graduates and further.
The teaching faculty will be in-house comprising of those who have already finished training in these courses at Pune head office. “We aim to tie up with colleges and educational institutions across the state for our programmes. We will also be running training programmes at our center in Panjim,” he added.
The course curricular will cover both, legal and technical fields. In the legal field, the courses will comprise of Indian cyber law and for technical courses, the tools and techniques used in cyber crime investigation and cyber forensics will be covered.
“We will also customize our programmes to suit the demand of the industry where professionals may opt for intensive programmes instead of regular courses. We aim to introduce more courses at regular intervals once we begin operations and get to know our target group better,” the territory manager said.
The expert admits that there is a wide gap currently existing in Goa between the availability and the demand of skilled manpower to tackle cyber crimes. The institution thus aims to reduce this gap by building capacity through courses and programmes.
The expertise will also tie up with colleges and industries of Goa to share the skills in this sector.
“With the IT infrastructure growing, this is a really serious issue across the industry. Goa, being a tourist hub, we also see a lot of tourists (Indian and foreign) coming to Goa every year who use IT extensively. Thus, cyber frauds, information theft and social networking crimes are on the rise. We must try nip them in the bud before the problem grows out of hand,” he concludes.
