Sumeet Singh

The last few years have seen alarming rise in demand for security products and services within India especially related to data security. Be it firewalls, VPN boxes and encryption solutions, or ISO 27001 and SOX consulting, the demand has only increased. There is not one reason amounting to this growth. Contractual clauses for BPO segment have become harsher. Fear of data breach within companies has increased. Salesmen (or Pre-Sales consultant as they are known these days) have mastered the art of selling expensive yet ineffective solutions. And so on. But do the solutions protect private data of consumers better than before? Probably not to the extent it should be protected. And yet, there are not as many cases of privacy violation in cyberlaw courts in India as one thinks there would be. The problem with Indian way of securing information and assuring privacy is many folds. Continue reading ‘Learnings from India: How not to secure personal data’