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Govt To Set Up Centre Of Excellence For Cyber Security In Capital City | Bhubaneswar News

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Bhubaneswar: The state government has decided to set up a centre of excellence (COE) for cyber security to help police personnel effectively deal with the challenges posed by cyber crooks. The state-owned Odisha Computer Application Centre (OCAC) is planning to set up the centre of excellence in Bhubaneswar to cater to the needs of the state police.
The proposed COE will have cyber intelligence, investigation and forensic units along with tools, technology, process, and trained manpower to combat the cyber criminals. One of the key aspects of this project is to have an effective cyber security workforce to help the police personnel in investigating cyber crimes.
“We have already floated an expression of interest and have received offers from some private IT companies. Their offers are being evaluated,” OCAC’s joint general manager (technical) Saroj Kumar Tripathy said.
The broader objective of the proposed centre of excellence is to strengthen the future cybersecurity environment by expanding cyber education, coordinating and redirecting research and development efforts across the government departments. The COE will conduct planning, designing, and analysing cyber security capacity building programme for the government of Odisha.
The COE will have a centralised analytics platform to capture data from various sources and analyse them to provide actionable intelligence to the law enforcement agencies. Data obtained from various sources can be utilised to determine the relationships that exist in the data through various analytical engines, finding a solution for crime detection.
The centralised analytics platform can help cops identify illegal activities being carried out in deep and dark web such as drugs, human trafficking, credit card frauds and fake passports. The platform can also identify rumours and fake or provocative materials circulated on social media.
The state, which reported 1,931 cybercrime cases in 2020, saw a marginal increase in 2021 with the police registering 2,037 cases, clocking nearly 5.5% rise.
In bulk of the cases, cyber crooks took away money from the victims by offering them high returns through different schemes, on purchases of pharmaceutical…

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Future Leaders of America State Awards of Excellence Program.

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The Buchholz High School Academy of Finance/Future Business Leaders of America Chapter enjoyed great success at the State Leadership Conference held March 11-13 in Orlando.

Buchholz High School students picked up 19 top honors at the Future Business Leaders of America State Awards of Excellence Program.  

First place winners were Siddharth Bianchi for Accounting I, Isabelle Tseng for Business Law, Anwyn Tanner for Computer Applications, Eric Diao for Cyber Security, Devika Kumar for Insurance and Risk Management, Noah Hunter for Personal Finance and Dylan Nihil for Supply Chain Management. 

Second Place winners included Max Conde for Accounting I, Vijay Hans for Data Analysis and Kevin Zheng for Insurance and Risk Management. 

Third place honorees were Keen Zhang for Business Calculations and Nathan Wei for Introduction to Financial Math. 

Fourth place honorees were Nolan Gao in Business Communication and Lauren Baltozer for Introduction to Business Communication. 

Fifth place finishers included the team of Hailey Cupp, Hailey Garza and Leslie Sarmiento-Vasquez for Introduction to Social Media, Lila Golde for Introduction to Business Concepts, and Edison Loftus for Network Infrastructures. 

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Centre of excellence in cyber security mooted in Hyderabad, IT News, ET CIO

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Hyderabad: Society for Cyberabad Security Council (SCSC), the collaborative body between Cyberabad police and information technology industry, plans to set up a centre of excellence in cyber security.

Cyberabad Police Commissioner V. C. Sajjanar said since cyber security is going to be the focus area in view of the threats, a centre of excellence is proposed in Cyberabad commissionerate limits.

A programme organised to celebrate 15 years of SCSC was attended Home Minister Mahmood Ali, Director General of Police (DGP) Mahender Reddy, principal secretary, IT, Jayesh Ranjan, police commissioners of Cyberabad, Hyderabad and Rachakonda and representatives of IT industry.

SCSC, a not-for-profit organization and collaboration between Industry, Cyberabad police and other government agencies works on key focus areas of women safety, road safety, infrastructure, cyber security for a safe and secure ecosystem and supports business continuity for Industry sectors in Cyberabad area.

Some of the key initiatives of SCSC include: CCTV network in IT corridor; QRT vehicles; She Shuttles; plasma drive; Margadarshak programme; SanghaMitra programme; project safe stay; SAFE (Safety Awareness for Employees); Radiant Hyderabad; Traffic Volunteers; DilSeY Program (Digital Literacy to Secure Youth); BCP Coordination for Industry.

To mark the 15th anniversary, SCSC brought out a Coffee Table Book which was unveiled by Mahmood Ali. The book recorded the special moments from the past. He described SCSC as the perfect example of Public-Private Partnership.

DGP Mahender Reddy said SCSC has become a role model for the best collaborative efforts between the industry and the police. An interface of this scale doesn’t exist anywhere in the world, he said.

The police chief said he recently issued orders to all SPs and Commissioners throughout the state to form such bodies

SCSC general secretary Krishna Yedula said in the beginning, SCSC had the vision to enhance the safety and security of Cyberabad, for IT and ITES companies. But in subsequent years, the idea of safety expanded and the mission evolved to include initiatives like road safety, women’s safety and cybersafety.

BVR Mohan Reddy, Executive and Founding Chairman, Cyient,…

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