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We have been lucratively providing Anti Spam Solution
to our data center customers at Spectra Net ISO 9001-2000, Tier Three
Data Center since Dec, 2004. Our esteemed and venerated clients are
enormously satisfied with the paramount quality of our services and
technical support. We look forward to a long term business
association.
Raman Walia
Manager (EBS), Spectranet -PLL |
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ANTI-SPAM STRATEGIES AND SOLUTIONS DISCUSSED AT FICCI |
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WESTERN
REGION COUNCIL
REPORT
ANTI-SPAM STRATEGIES AND SOLUTIONS DISCUSSED AT FICCI
CYBER SAFETY WEEK SEMINAR AT HR COLLEGE OF COMMERCE,
MUMBAI |
A seminar on
Anti Spam Strategies and Solutions was organized by
FICCI in association with NASSCOM and Mumbai Police on
November 25, 2005 at H.R. College Auditorium, Mumbai, as
a part of the Cyber Safety Week.
Spam, an internet evil, has become a serious problem of
late causing great losses to companies and individuals
in terms of man hours wasted and money spent on internet
and mobile phone communication systems. Moreover
unwanted junk mails are seriously infringing the right
to privacy of individuals. .
Elaborating on the benefits of information security, Mr.
Sushil Jiwarajka, Chairman, FICCI-WRC said that the
inherent benefits of security are a positive way to
enhance trust and improve/differentiate the perception
of brands. He further observed that the coming of new
technology was facilitating greater access, comfort
level and ease of operations. Talking about spamming, he
observed that merely adding new sets of governmental
regulations would not by themselves solve the problem,
as spamming was a worldwide problem and national borders
did not limit Internet access.
Mr. Vijay Mukhi, Chairman, E-Security Initiative,
NASSCOM Western Region, in his address, strongly
expressed his dismay at the growing menace of spamming,
which he termed as a gross violation of fundamental
right to privacy of individuals. He said that the
private email of individuals was no more their private
domain. He advocated a fee for sending email so that
people would stop misusing and start respecting it. He
felt that filtering has not proved to be an ideal
solution to the problem. He called for dedicating a day
in the year for Anti-Spamming.
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Mrs. Indu
Sahani, Principal, HR College, called for building
excellent skill sets among the student community and
creating awareness of the changing world around them.
She felt that student participation at conferences on
topics connected with cyber safety would enhance their
awareness levels.
Presenting his Key Note Address, Mr. S. P. Srivastava,
Joint Director, Central Bureau of Investigation,
observed that about US$ 12 billion is wasted on account
of Spam which many times contain damaging viruses making
the user servers/computer systems vulnerable to serious
attacks leading to costly breakdowns. After explaining
the various ways by which people indulging in spamming,
plant viruses to access files of other users without
their knowledge, he suggested ways such as ‘deleting’,
‘camouflaging’ and ‘hiding’ email addresses/paths in
different formats. He informed that an Internet
Committee on Protocols was seriously working to resolve
various problems arising out of spamming. He emphasized
on the need to have a regulatory law on the subject at
the earliest. According to him, India did not have any
strict law in force to tackle the problem of spamming
effectively. He clarified that as of date spamming was
not a criminal act and is not a cognizable offence. He
appreciated the tremendous progress made by Australian
law in curbing spamming effectively.
 Mr.
Ajay Data, Chief Executive Officer, Data Infosys Ltd.,
in his presentation on Antii-Spam Strategies & Solutions
considered that charging a fee for sending emails was
not a solution to the problem He strongly felt that the
use of appropriate technology was the only way to deal
with the problem effectively. He pointed out that 40 per
cent of all email received was spam and expected a 63
per cent increase in the number of spams by 2007. He
clarified various queries on different anti-spamming
measures like blacklisting, notifying, detection,
content filtering, verifying mail from domain,
restricting unauthorized mail relay and controlling rate
of receipt of emails. He called for following national
best practice, which is in place, by all concerned in
order to derive maximum benefit from Internet.
Mrs. N.S. Nappinai, a noted advocate and specialist in
cyber laws related matters, defined the scope of Article
21 under the Indian Constitution which protects the
right to privacy, and its applicability in the case of
spamming which too infringes on the right to privacy of
individuals. According to her spamming is not a criminal
offence in India. She further pointed out that so far
only one writ petition has been filed on account of
spamming in the Supreme Court viz., Harsh Pathak Vs.
Union of India. She strongly felt that there was an
immediate need for enacting proper legislation on
spamming. In this connection she lauded the progress
made the US, which had enacted CAN SPAM Act, 2003. She
also called for amendments to the Indian IT Act 2000.
She felt that Australia had the most effective cyber
laws to curb spamming. |
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