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Top 15 Best Public Citizen Security Solutions Companies In India 2023

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Some of the leading security solutions companies in India include:

  • G4S Secure Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.

G4S Secure Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. is a security solutions company in India that provides a wide range of services, including security guarding, cash management, risk consulting, and security systems integration. It is a subsidiary of G4S plc, a British multinational security services company with operations in more than 90 countries.

In India, G4S Secure Solutions provides security solutions to a diverse range of customers, including businesses, government agencies, and individuals. Their services include manned guarding, electronic security solutions, cash management solutions, event security management, risk consulting and advisory services, and outsourced business processes.

G4S Secure Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. has a strong presence across the country with a workforce of more than 135,000 employees, providing customized security solutions to meet the needs of its customers. The company has a strong focus on technology and innovation, utilizing cutting-edge technology to deliver effective security solutions.

Securitas India is a subsidiary of Securitas AB, a Swedish multinational security services company with operations in over 50 countries. In India, Securitas provides a wide range of security solutions and services to businesses, organizations, and individuals.

Their services include manned guarding, security consulting and risk management, event security, electronic security solutions, cash management, background verification services, and secure logistics solutions. The company has a strong focus on providing customized security solutions to its customers, leveraging its expertise and experience to address the specific security challenges faced by its clients.

Securitas India has a strong presence across the country, with over 60,000 employees providing security solutions to a diverse range of customers, including Fortune 500 companies, multinational corporations, and public sector organizations. The company also has a strong focus on technology and innovation, utilizing cutting-edge security technology to enhance the effectiveness of its security solutions.

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Sensitive citizen data illegally transmitted by TDP Govt, says Andhra Assembly panel

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The panel constituted in March 2022 to investigate whether Pegasus spyware was used by the Chandrababu Naidu government has submitted an interim report in the Andhra Pradesh legislative Assembly.

A House Committee that was formed by the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly has concluded that a large volume of data from the state’s servers were transmitted to unknown external sources during the Chandrababu Naidu government’s regime.

The Committee, headed by Tirupati MLA Bhumana Karunakar Reddy, in its report said “there was unauthorised and improper transmission of large amounts of sensitive data from the State Data Centre (SDC) to unknown external servers from November 30, 2018 to March 31, 2019.”

Presenting the report in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, Karunakar Reddy said the committee found that a large volume of data had been transferred from 18 State Data Centre (SDC) servers to several unknown external IP addresses and that the reason for this data transfer was unknown.

“The data was sent to TDP leaders who used it to make unlawful gains during the elections held in 2019. The TDP leaders have misused the data. There was large-scale deletion of voters’ names before the election,” Karunakar Reddy told the Assembly. The statement evoked angry reactions from the TDP members who demanded a copy of the complete report. The house committee only tabled two copies of the report in the Assembly.      

The State Data Centre (SDC) is where the state government’s servers and network devices are stored. As part of the Praja Sadhikara Survey (smart pulse survey) organised in 2016, the previous government had collected individual details from all citizens. The Naidu government had said that the data was to ensure that government schemes would reach the beneficiaries. Details collected included aadhar card, ration card, voter ID, property tax, electricity bill, driving licence, vehicle registration details, gas connection details, bank account details, water bill details, caste certificate, income certificate, birth certificate etc. It is this data that was stored in SDC and later transferred to external servers, concluded the committee.

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Citizen Developers and Securing APIs

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Microsoft Build is where we get to explore the latest innovations in code and application development. This time around there were 55 sessions dedicated to Microsoft’s approach to low-code, including a keynote on day two with Julie Strauss and Karuana Gatimu. Organizations are increasingly adopting low code application platforms to fuse the worlds of citizen developers, professional developers, and the other parties instrumental in building and using applications. The goal is to quickly deliver new solutions and modernize business capabilities.

So what is low-code?

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Low-code is a visual approach to software development. Rather than writing code, it allows you to essentially drag and drop objects and connections using a graphical user interface (GUI). It effectively abstracts the code from the application builder to significantly lower the barrier to entry. Gartner predicts 70% of new applications developed by enterprises will use low-code or no-code technologies by 2025. Up from less than 25% in 2020. 

Whereas 3rd party software can only be customized so much, low code applications are more closely aligned with an organization’s existing business processes. The starting point for low code applications is usually the process you are trying to automate, not the functionality of the software suite you purchased from your vendor.

Though low-code and no-code modular approaches allow professional developers to quickly build applications, more often we talk about low-code in the context of citizen developers. These developers could be business analysts, office administrators, small-business owners and others who are not actual software developers to build and test applications, because it requires little to no knowledge of traditional programming languages.

How the low-code revolution began

According to Microsoft, fundamental shifts drive this change in enterprise application development. It is described in 4 waves by Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Business Applications, Charles Lamanna;

Wave number 1: The changing workforce

There are people entering the workforce today who have grown up with high expectations of applications and application consumption. Traditional…

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Insider Q&A: Internet guardian Ron Deibert of Citizen Lab

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By FRANK BAJAK

BOSTON (AP) — The internet watchdog Citizen Lab has been remarkably effective in calling to account governments and private sector firms that use information technology to put people in peril.

Its digital sleuths at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs are best known for exposing abusive targeted espionage, particularly through the use of . Its Pegasus tool has been used to hack and surveil dozens of journalists, human rights activists and dissidents globally. In November, the U.S. government and and notified Pegasus victims.

Citizen Lab’s work elsewhere is less known. It exposes digital espionage campaigns and insecure software, most recently for athletes, journalists and other foreigners attending the Winter Olympics.

The Associated Press recently spoke with Citizen Lab’s director, . The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Q: You founded Citizen Lab in 2001. How did that happen?

A: I was doing work on how intelligence agencies use satellite reconnaissance technology for arms control verification. It exposed me to a world that I didn’t even know existed. I saw the mixture of tools being used to gather electronic evidence and wondered why something like that could not be done in the public interest, on behalf of journalists, NGOs, and human rights activists. And what better place to do such evidence-based research – alongside people with technical skills I didn’t have — than at a university? This was all in the back of my mind when the Ford Foundation reached out to see if I was interested in a project on information tech and international security. So I pitched the lab as “counterintelligence for global civil society.” It was hubris at the time. I had no case to make such a claim. But here we are many years later, fulfilling that role.

Q: What do you consider Citizen Lab’s greatest contributions? And is it growing?

A: I think the greatest thing we’ve done is develop a reputation for research that is highly credible, methodical and unbiased. We go where the evidence leads us and are beholden to no one. I have been able to surround myself with very talented, highly ethical people most of whom could be…

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