India, US to tackle cyber crime

India and the US to deal with cyber crime in view of the rapid growth of IT trade between the countries.

India and the US have decided to enhance cooperation among their law enforcement agencies to deal with cyber crime in view of the rapid growth of trade in IT-enabled services between the two countries.

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At the third plenary of the India-US cyber security forum that concluded here Tuesday, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and its US counterpart decided to set up an India Information Sharing and Analysis Centre (ISAC) and an India Anti-Bot Alliance to raise awareness about emerging threats to cyberspace.

The US National Cyber Security Division has agreed to share expertise in artefact analysis, network traffic and exchange of information while the research and development group will concentrate on problems relating to cyber security, forensics and anti-spam research.

India's Deputy National Security Advisor Vijay K. Nambiar emphasised the strategic partnership between the two countries and said the need for serious attention to sound information security practices was imperative in the light of growing trade between both sides.

Michael Coulter, the US co-chair, said the India-US cyber security forum had progressed from a philosophy in the last three years to a common action-oriented agenda on securing networked information systems.

Expecting a more ambitious programme in the coming year, Coulter hoped the forum's agenda would help cope with new challenges on the cyber security horizon such as mitigating risks in the emerging sub-outsourcing environment.

A series of India-US seminars, workshops and expert level exchanges are to be held in the coming months.