India, US to thrash out cyber security, privacy and IPR issues

NEW DELHI: Over 200 senior bureaucrats, service officers, legal luminaries and business leaders from India will interact with 50 industry and government representatives from the US to discuss in-depth issues relating to cyber security, IPR and privacy on and April 18 and April 19 in New Delhi.






The occasion for this meeting is the Indo-US Cyber Security Forum's Legal Seminar. The National Security Council Secretariat of India (NSCS) and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) are jointly organizing the seminar, which is a government industry partnership.





The seminar's primary focus will be the legal aspects of cyber security, IPR and privacy. The aim would be to showcase how far legal and judicial system and enforcement agencies are geared towards addressing these issues and how much more ground needs to be covered to achieve globally acceptable standards.





National security adviser of India MK Narayan would deliver the keynote address on 18 April. Some of the topics that would be covered during the two days include Cyber Laws and Indian Legal Environment, Indo-US Cooperation in High Technology, Cyber Security and International Law, Cyber crime control mechanisms, Legal Framework for E-Governance and E-Commerce and Industry Resilience Issues.





The Indo-US Cyber Security Forum is a part of the Indo-US High Technology Group a public private partnership between India and the US set up to discuss and implement ways and means of increasing cooperation between the two countries in high technology areas. The legal seminar will be followed by cyber forensic workshop on April 20- April 21 and CERT Seminar on April 21- April 22 under the Indo-US Cyber Security Forum.